Chapter Three:

"Wait! Johnny! Stop!" MEAT yelled.

Johnny stopped.

"I must die!" he screamed.

"Fine! Kill yourself! I've struggled to keep you alive, and this is how you thank me? Well, I'm through! I'm leaving Johnny!!!!!! I'm leaving!" MEAT said. Johnny just stared at him.

"MEAT?" he asked. He kicked at the doll. It didn't move or speak. He smiled. MEAT was gone. "OK, now back to suicide," he said. He raised his knife, but suddenly he remembered something.

"Devi. I've got to say goodbye to Devi," he said, heading into the bedroom.

Devi still lay in her original spot. Nny knelt beside her.

"Hello Devi," he whispered to her immobile face. "It's over now. I'm going to kill myself. Not in here of course, I'd never want you to see. But you can be at peace now, wherever you are. I'm getting what I deserve now. I'm so sorry for all the pain I've caused you. All I've ever done is hurt you and love you. And even my love hurt you. I know now that my being alive only hurts the ones I care about. With you gone, there are so few I can count them on my fingers. I don't want to hurt anyone else. Shit, I know you're dead. But I like to think somehow, up in heaven, you can hear me right now. Well, I came to say goodbye to you. Goodbye Devi. I'll always love you, no matter what happens. But even when you're dead I can't stain you with my love anymore," Nny said. He stared at her lovingly for a moment, and then left the room.

Once in the living room, he pulled out the knife again. As he held it over his wrist and prepared to launch an attack, he heard a voice.

"Johnny, Johnny. You're going to kill yourself? Now, what will that solve?" the voice said. And suddenly Johnny stared toward the bedroom.

"Devi?" he asked in shock, heading for the bedroom door.

"No, no. I'm not in there," Devi said.

"What? Where are you?"

"Silly. I'm dead, remember?"

"Then how are you-"

"I'm in your head, Johnny."

"Devi? You're in my head? How?"

"You've always got a voice in your head, Nny. One who helped you or hurt you. Who did you think was going to take that burger boy's place?"

"You're my new voice?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to help me or hurt me?"

"What do you think?"

"Well, I killed you so-"

"I'm going to help you, Nny. You think I'd actually hurt you, after everything you did for me?"

"All I did was cause you pain. Oh shit I'm so sorry for everything. Devi, if I could take back everything I did to you-"

"No, you saved me."

"What?"

"You saved me from becoming like everyone else. You showed me that some people had hearts. I..I love you Nny. I'm going to help you become sane again. You're a good person. You just need a little help."

"So I tried to kill you once and turned you paranoid, then when you were kind enough to give me another chance I DID kill you, and you're going to salvage me?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"You don't actually think I'm petty enough to hold a grudge against you? Even if you did kill me, it's the right thing to do helping you. I want you to be saved," Devi's voice said.

"Why would you want me to be rescued?"

"So someday I can see you again, when you go to heaven."

"Oh, Devi. I'm so sorry I killed you. I...I love you."

"See, impossible things CAN be possible."

"Devi I..thank you. Thank you for everything. I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Well, you don't have to know. Now, how about a freezy. Heaven knows how long you've been without one."

"I had one yesterday."

"But you want one now."

"How do you know?"

"Hee."

"Devi can you...oh fuck you can read my mind!"

"Well duh, I'm inside of it."

"Oh shit."

"Well, it doesn't matter. It's not like I'm going to laugh at anything you think. Now c'mon, let's go get that freezy now. Cherry doom, right?"

"Of course."

"Well let's go then."

"OK. Hey Devi, that time on our first date, can I ask you a question about it?"

"Go ahead."

"Alrighty then. If I hadn't run away, when you were going to kiss me....were you JUST going to kiss me, or how far would it have actually..GONE? You know, were you going to..were we going to...you know..um.do...you know?"

"I know what you're thinking, Nny. I'm not sure. If everything worked out..probably."

"Fuck Devi, don't you think it was a little early for..that?"

"Maybe. But I wasn't thinking. Caught up in the moment, you know? Now, what about that freezy?"

"Oh, right," Nny said, heading for the front door. He opened it and headed out toward the 24/7 store.

END.

Well, how did you like it? Hope ya did. Sorry if it was a little weird or anything. Well, I'll see ya later!

~Moonchild