Mandy: Highlights of the previous chapter
Mandy pounded her pillow with her fist...It was almost like there was a person inside...
Mandy stopped suddenly, comprehension dawning on her face. She lifted up her pillow from the top of the pillowcase and shook it. Will fell out, moaning about his many sore limbs. Mandy blushed, and apologised, smiling slightly.
"Will, what can I do to make it up to you?" she cried desperately. "Should I do all your chores or something like that?"
"Nah, just walk over to Mindy's house and apologise," Will suggested.
"Okey-Dokey!" Mandy said seriously, and ran out the door. She would do anything for Will, and he always asked for such simple things.
"Phase One, complete, though with some technical flaws," Will whispered into a walkie talkie that Mandy hadn't noticed.
"What kind of flaws?" asked Mindy.
"A major flaw," responded Will, wiping a trickle of blood from his nose. "I'm dying."
"Dying? What's that mean?" gasped Mindy.
"I do believe our nemesis, Mandy, is unaware of her own brawn."
"Huh?"
"Never mind. It just means I'm never going to see you again," he sighed, as a stream of blood started gushing from his head, at about his hairline. "I want you to make Mandy's life..." he started having trouble speaking and had to slow down, "...miserable..."
"What's 'miserable', Will?" Mindy asked quickly, knowing somehow that his time was running out.
"The way...you were...before you...had frrrrrrrieeeeeennnndddddddddsss..." Will's voice faded away completely.
No, "Billy" can't die, because this is the past, remember? But I think we all know who shows up now.
