Jeremie
awoke to the sound of his mobile phone ringing. Finally, he awoke and
answered it.
"Hello?"
"Jeremie?
Where have you been everyone has been worried sick! Where's
Aelita?" It was Odd's voice.
"I'm
sorry, Odd... Aelita...and I were mugged. But I don't think we'll
ever see her again." He said. There was a horrible lump in his
throat, but no matter how hard he tried to swallow it, it kept coming
back up.
"OH
MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED JEREMIE!"
"Just
can you please come and get me..."
"Yeah
Jeremie... I will."
Odd
pulled up on a moped he "borrowed" from the gym. "Dude
what happened..."
Odd
said seeing the horrible cut on Jeremie's shoulder.
"Where's
Aelita?" He asked.
"Uhhhhhhhhhh...lets
just say... the mugger didn't get what he wanted."
"Oh
my god," Odd said
"How
could you let this happen?!"
"I
DONT KNOW!!!" he said he put his head on his knees and cried.
"I
spent all the money on dinner. I only had a dollar and a couple coins
and he KILLED HER!"
"I
HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM" Jeremie said punching the ground.
"DUDE
DUDE calm down! Take a deep breath and breathe..." Odd said calmly.
Jeremie
tried to calm down.
"We
should go home," he said. "Ulrich needs to know what
happened."
"Poor
guy. Lost a girlfriend and a friend in two days. I hate death."
Odd shook his head in sorrow.
"Don't
say death Odd," said Jeremie. "It makes me sick to my
stomach."
MEANWHILE
Ulrich
was all alone. He sat on his bed and wondered...
he
wondered what became of Yumi... he wondered how she died.
He
wondered why she had to die, but mostly he wondered
where
Jeremie and Aelita were. He lay down with a face as
emotionless
as still water. He missed Yumi. He missed Aelita. Heck,
he
even missed Sissi. But the one thing he missed most of all was the
easy life,
before
Yumi died, before Jeremie and Aelita got lost,
Before
all of this happened. Ulrich stared at the ceiling.
He
wished he could return to the past. But that was in the easy life. He
could never return to that. Out of the corner of his eye, Ulrich saw
Sissi
peeked through the cracked door. She opened it a
little
more and stuck her head inside the room.
"Ulrich
dear..." she said softly. Ulrich continued to stare at the
ceiling...
completely
ignoring her.
"Ulrich...please
say something." she said, trying to make him listen.
"What."
he said so quietly it was like a whisper.
"I
just came in to see how you were..."
"He
sat up on the edge of the bed. You can come in." He said, moving
his gaze to the floor.
'Uhhh...Ok."
sissy said startled
There
was a long and awkward silence. Ulrich just sat there in his unhappy
mood
and
Sissi just didn't know what to say. Finally sissy cleared her throat
and said,
"Ulrich
dear.... is there anything I can do to help? Ulrich shook his head
sadly.
"Are
you sure?" she asked. He looked her in the eyes. And smiled...
but
it faded into a frown again.
"Oh
Ulrich dear I hate seeing you like this! Please smile! Make me leave!
Tease me! Do something! ! !" sissy yelled. She threw her arms
around Ulrich's neck and cried.
Ulrich
couldn't stand the tension and started crying his eyes out as well.
"Please
Ulrich please live again! Live again..." Sissi said sobbing.
"I'm
sorry. I really miss her." Ulrich said quietly. Sissi looked up
and wiped her tears.
"Ulrich
dear...do you want to talk about it?" she said
"Yes
sissi. I really do." he said thoughtfully.
"I
want to talk about how she died." Ulrich said inquisitively.
"Do
you know anything about her death?" Ulrich asked suspiciously
"Oh
Ulrich dear don't you trust me?" Sissi said.
"No.
I want you to answer my question." Ulrich said staring her down.
"Ok!
I DID IT! I KILLED HER"
"You
what..." Ulrich said through clenched teeth,
"I
put something in her water bottle! It's supposed to make
her
only have a seizure but this time it killed her! And I'm sorry
Ulrich!
I
truly am!"
"Sissi.
Why did you do it?" Ulrich said in a monotone voice
trying
very hard to suppress his fury and hatred.
"I'm
sorry!" Sissi yelled. "Please don't hate me don't hate
me!!!"
"Oh
Sissi I don't hate you." Ulrich said.
"You
don't?" Sissi asked wiping her tears. Ulrich couldn't hold
his
anger any longer.
"No
Sissi. I DESPISE YOU MORE THAN ANY OTHER HUMAN
BEING
ON EARTH!!! WHY DID YOU KILL YUMI?!?!?!??
WHY
DID YOU DO THAT?!? DID YOU THINK I WOULD LIKE
YOU?!?!
WELL SISSI YOU ARE WRONG YOU ARE VERY WRONG.
AND
YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE!" he screamed.
At
that moment, he broke through the door to the balcony, causing a
waterfall of glass to
slapped
her across the face. Sissi screamed and yelled. Then
everything
started happening in slow motion. Sissi tripped and fell with her
arms
draped over the side. Sissi lifted up her legs and a final push
from
Ulrich sent her flipping over the edge and onto the ground with a
loud crack.
A
puff of smoke drifted away from her fallen body. A group of kids soon
gathered around.
"Hey
she fell off the balcony"
"Is
she dead?"
"look!
He did it! Up there! He killed her!"
Ulrich
realized what happened and burst through the door.
'What
have I done?' he thought to himself.
He knew that...
-----------------------------This was the end of Sissi.
