Chapter23#

"And then she shot herself"Kyle finished telling a cop what happenned on the roof.

"OK thank you sir and I am sorry for your loss"

"me too"

Lily had died however the cop said near the end she was so in shock she would not have been in pain.

Kyle stood alone in the middle of the street in the pouring rain.

Kyle decided to go home.

"Hey I thought you were having dinner with Lily"Donna said.

"I was"

"Was?did you guys have a fight or something?"

"No"

"what is wrong?"

"she is dead"

"what?"

"that girl showed up shot Lily and then herself she died instantly Lily died in my arms"

"No"

"its true"

"Oh no I'm so sorry poor Lily she was innocent"

"Yes she was"

"do you want to talk about it or something to eat?"

"No but I am hungry"

Kyle was in shock and never blinked or changed the tone of his vioce.

"Sit"Donna instructed.

Kyle slowly without a word sat in a chair.

"Kyle I know you are in shock but sometimes its good to talk about a traumatic experience"

"Maybe later"

Kyle never got a wink of sleep that night and woke up the next day to a knock on the door.

Kyle answered and saw the paper he picked it up and read it.

Obituary.

Dr.Lily Reddicker of st.Michaels hospital has died.

Dr.Reddicker was the head Dr. in e.r. and died last night.

Dr.Reddicker sufferred from a gunshot wound to the stomach.

Miss Reddicker was engaged to wed Dr.Kyle McCarty a co-worker.

Dr.McCarty was there when Dr.Reddicker was shot and she died in his arms.

Sources say Dr.Reddicker was being stalked last night her stalker shot her then turned the gun on herslef.

Dr.Reddicker was born in new york was an only child and came from a poor family.

Co-workers say they will miss her Dr.McCarty has made no comment.

Lily Norah Reddicker.

5-7-72 --- 10-14-03 she will be missed.

Her funeral is next sunday two days after her death.

Lily's picture was there and Kyle thought she never looked more beautiful

Kyle read the paper twice still indisbelief she was dead he hoped when he woke up she would be with him and he would know it was a dream.

"I had no idea her middle name was Norah"Kyle said as Donna came to the living room.

"Oh Kyle I'm sorry"

"Me too hey is it ok with you if I kidnapp the paper?"

"yeah sure"

"thanks"Kyle walked back to his room taking the paper with him.

Kyle turned on the radio to get his thoughts off Lily.

on the radio came Lily's favorite song.

"if I should stay I would only be in your way So I'll go but I know I'll think of you every step of the way"

"and I will always love you"

Kyle quickly turned the radion off but the song kept playing over and over again in his head.

Kyle walked to Lily's house then onto her roof.

The blood from where Lily had been shot and bled to death was still there.

Kyle stood there in the same spot he had sat when he held her while she was dying.

It started to rain and Kyle looked up at the sky.

"Tears"Kyle said softly as the rain drops hit his face.

How was he supposed to go on without his true love?

Kyle stayed on the roof just thinking and talking to Lily like she was there with him.

Donna was at home when the doorbell rang.

"hello?"Donna opened the door and a cop was there.

"Does a Dr.Kyle McCarty live here?"

"yes"

"Are you Donna?"

"I am"

"I am sorry Dr.McCarty had died"

"What?"

"He jumped off a roof"

"what?"

"I'm sorry all that was on him was this envalope addressed to you"

Donna took the envalope from the cop and he left.

Donna was shaking but she opened the envalope.

Inside was Lily's obituary and a note.

Dear Donna

Hi I am sorry to do this but if I can not live with her I don't want to live at all.

Please get in the black box under my bed it has instructions for my funeral an will.

I will miss you.

Kyle