A/n: Oooooh I'm evil.
Cody: Ginger shut up. Does Logan live or not?
I thought you didn't like my stories?
Cody: Oh uh…

Chapter 4: Reality again.

Dana opened one eye blearily. The sun shone onto her face and the birds outside chirped merrily. When had it suddenly got so hot? She raised her hands to her eyes and rubbed the sleep out of them. She then realised she had use of her left hand. How odd… Coming to a realisation she noticed the handcuffs had been sawn clean in the middle. How odd.She looked around. She was sat on the chair beside the bed. The bed was clean and pressed. 'Wow.' She thought. 'Logan actually makes his bed.' She figured he must be in the bathroom or something. She waited twenty minutes before becoming restless. Stupid boy.

"Excuse me miss…" She collared a nurse. "Can you tell me where Logan Reese is?" The nurse looked confused.
"I'm only a ward sister. Matron?" She called and elderly nurse over. She walked over. "This girl wants to know what happened to Logan Reese." She looked slightly sad.
"Nobody told you?" Asked the matron softly. It was Dana's turn to look confused.
"Told me what?" Dana queried. The matron and the sister shared a glance that clearly said they thought Dana was crazy. The matron sighed.
"Logan passed away in the early hours of this morning." Dana laughed. Nutters. The pair of them.
"Impossible." She said shaking her head. "He was awake. He was talking to me. He… he kissed me!" Her throat clogged up as she saw the grave faces on the nurses.
"I'm afraid you're the one talking impossibilities. Mr Reese was in a very heavy coma. There is no way he could've awoken."
"He did!" Dana whispered. They couldn't be telling the truth. "I remember. He said he wanted to be friends! He told me…" Dana breathed. "He promised me he wouldn't die." She said under her breath. She sank down into her chair. No.

A few hours ago she HAD spoken to him. That was real she remembered it. Or perhaps she'd been right on the money. She was mad. She was insane. Dana started to cry heavily. She wished Logan had never been tied to her.
"The police will want to talk to you." Said the sister. Dana's head snapped up.
"No! No police! Chase said… it was an accident. It's not murder if it's an accident." She stuttered.
"The police will still want to talk to you. We had to emergency cut you from Mr Reese when we electro-shocked him to try and restart his heart."
"His heart? But… I hit his head." Dana whispered in confusion. She was very disorientated. She couldn't make the connections. Obviously someone with a head trauma can die of heart failure as a direct result... but Dana wasn't thinking clearly. She couldn't.
"So you admit you hit him?" Asked the matron accusingly.
"No… yes… I don't know!" Dana raked her fingers through her hair. She wasn't a murderess. Logan had told her so! But Logan would never tell her anything again. He would never again ask her to make out with him. He would never again be so cocky and arrogant. She sobbed. When had it got so hot? A police officer walked in brandishing a pair of handcuffs. Dana panicked. She'd had enough of handcuffs. She stood up and pushed past the menacing copper. She ran.

She'd always hated running. In gym class she'd tried everything possible to get out of it. One time she'd even told Coach Phelps she was pregnant. Unfortunately he told the school nurse, who'd had her tested. (How embarrassing.) She'd been back in PE the next week. She felt her bare feet pound the hot pavement. She was still dressed in her bikini and Logan's shirt, the knot in the shoulder was coming loose but she couldn't care less. She had worse problems. One she was on the run from the law. Two Logan had just died. Three She was going insane. The sun beat down on her bare neck. She was overheating. She knew where she was headed. With the thought of PCA's hallways clear in mind, a haven away from the insanity she continued to run. She felt her lungs were about to explode and her head was swimming but she kept running. She had to keep running. The noise of sirens spurred her on, even though they were fire engine's sirens. She was becoming paranoid.

She stepped over the threshold of the building and made her way dizzily up to the girls dorm. Chase was sat on the sofa with Zoey on his lap. Nicole and Michael were playing scrabble. Dana had to do a double take. The words on the board read 'Murderer' or 'Killer' or 'Dead' or 'Prison'. The whole board was filled.
"Dana!" Said Zoey in shock. Dana realised she must look a mess. Her hair was stuck to her face with sweatand her make up had run all down her cheeks. Infact itseemed like a lifetime ago she'd actually applied make up. Dana then figured it was a lifetime ago. Logan's lifetime.
"What's wrong?" Asked Chase in confusion.
"He's… dead." Dana croaked. The heat was unbearable. Hadn't it been cold last night. When she was with Logan it had been freezing. But then again… Dana realised, she hadn't been with Logan. It had all been in her head.
"Dead?" Whispered Nicole in shock. "TRIPLE WORD SCORE!" She then cried. Dana looked at Nicole, she was completely mortified.
"Hello! Dead friend, triple word score! Priority!" She screeched.
"We're accessories to murder!" Zoey cried.
"It's not murder if it's an accident." Dana defended.
"You said yourself Dana. You did it on purpose. You meant to kill him." Chase accused. Dana shook her head.

"I didn't. I meant… Logan said…" Dana tried to explain. Were her friends really accusing her of murder! She hadn't killed him intentionally!
"Logan said nothing!" Michael said. "And he'll never say anything again because…"
"Because you killed him." Zoey said.
"You're the one who tied me to him!" Dana hollered in protest.
"But you pushed him." Nicole said.
"You hit him." Chase replied.
"You hated him." That was Michael. That was also not true. Dana hadn't hated him. Had she? Maybe she'd been right all along: maybe it had been deliberate.
"You killed him." Zoey announced.

The four stood up and formed a circle around Dana.
"Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!"
"I'M NOT!" she cried clamping her hands around her ears. "I'M NOT!"
"Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!" Their circle became tighter around Dana and she felt she was suffocating. Everyone's head was becoming one. Everything seemed a total blur. Dana felt dizzy. "Murderer! Murderer! Murderer!" She was! She was a murderer! She'd killed him. She was going to jail. So long career. So long family. So long, so long, so long. Dana fell to her knees and started crying. "MURDERER!" they all cried. Dana lay her head on the floor. Everything was spinning. Everyone was screaming. Her head whistled like a kettle it felt heavy and as though it was swimming.Then... her head exploded.

Dana saw stars. She saw the whole universe. She was stood on a star and looking over the planet. Where was she? In sapce. All around her the sky was a velvety black. It was a little cold to say she was stood on a star. 'Wait a minute...' she thought 'people can't stand on stars'
"Hallo Dana." Said a calm voice. Dana span around in recognition.
"Logan!" She screeched taking a step back. "But you're…"
"Dead? Ha. Take that universe." He raised his finger in a classic 'up yours' gesture. "Careful Dana." He laughed andwalked to the other side of her to stop her falling.She realised she had nearly fallen right off the edge of the star. The sky around her was not welcoming. If she fell she felt she'd fall right into the oblivion.
"But I saw… the nurse said…"
"Yeah, yeah. Nurses think they know a lot more than nurses know."
"But… you can't be… Where am…"
"I'm here aren't I? Standing here infront of you flesh and blood?" He took her hand in his. It was still warm. Dana looked confused. She had expected it to be cold. Maybe she was being ridiculous.
"I want you to do me a favour Dana."
"No. Not yet. No more favours. I'm being arrested. I'm getting done for murder." Logan laughed. He leaned down and placed his lips against hers.

This time she not only let him, she replied. She responded. She snaked her hand up to his neck and pulled him closer.
"Mm," Logan mumbled. "Never thought you'd react like that." He sighed. He realised she was crying. "Must you always get so soppy?" He slipped his hands around her waist and pulled her against him. "It's not your fault."
"It is. It is. It's all my fault. It's always my fault!" She lay her head against his chest.
"If I told you… you could have another shot. Start all over again. Would you?" He asked.
"Of course I would! But we're only human. We live and we die. We can't turn back time." Logan laughed and lay his chin on her hair.
"Maybe you're only human. I'm not."
"Oh I suppose this is where you tell me you're an angel? Or an alien?" She suggested. Logan stroked her back softly. He pulled her back and kissed her again. She replied gratefully.

"If you had one more chance Dana?" He said when they broke apart.
"I would if I could but I can't so stop making me feel guilty!" She cried at him.
"I want you to do me a favour." He said unabashed that Dana was mad. Dana was always mad. He'd learnt a long time ago not to play up to that if he didn't want to get hit.
"What?" She said irritably. He was ruining the moment!
"I want you to let me go." He said gently.
"It's not that easy! And if I let you go where will you go? You're just going to float around here for the rest of my life? I won't let you!" She cried. "I'll... I'll kill myself if you make me leave!" She threatened. She wasn't sure whether she actually meant it. Could she face prison... and the world? Knowing that she'd killed the boy she loved? Love? 'Oh god' she realised. 'I do love him'
"No! Don't do that please?" He begged. "I don't fancy having that on my conscience. Just calm down? I want you to do one last thing for me."
"What!" She cried in confusion. He shouldn't say it like that. 'One last thing' Did that mean he was leaving forever? He couldn't leave her to go to prison. Why would he?

"I want you to wake up." He whispered in her ear.

A/n: Wow. What a confusing chapter.
Cody: I'm confused. Is he dead or alive? What does he mean wake up? Oh I get it. When she fainted when they were all calling her a murderer?
Cody will you be quiet! Man he's annoying. Anywho. Please no reviews saying 'what the hell was that' or 'I don't get it' because it makes sense next chapter!