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Warning: This chapter and/or future chapters may include: Suicide, Self-Inflicted Harm, Alcohol Abuse, Child Abuse, and Minor use of Profanity
Chapter 17: The Truth Unfolds
Kairi has seen enough. The pain flows through her viens as she just saw the one she loves witness her place of death. I mean, she had to be dead, right? What else could it possibly be? Oh the agonizing hurt she feels right now, she has never felt this before. Well, once. The day of her mother's death. She feels no need to live, if that is what you want to call it anyway. Why should she sit here without a purpose in the world? She knew what she must do.
She walks into the bathroom barefoot, as her once soft skin begins to stick to the hard tile. She opens the bathroom cabnet. Oh how she can still move objects, but that is meaningless if she remains unseen. She grabs a razor, the one she had used before, and begins to slice through her skin. She was not afraid of the pain, she was tired of this. She took the razor and swipes it back and forth in every direction, as she watches streams of blood run down her skin.
The blood she lost was enough to kill her surely, but that would take time. She didn't want to wait, as she realized her mistake. She dropped the razor onto the bloody floor, and ran to her father's bedroom door. He had always kept a gun, hidden on the shelf. She now was about to take it and finally meet her fate. If she really was dead, then this possibly cannot hurt. As she clentched her teeth, and her heart began to skip beats, she pulled the trigger.
No, but surely, it did not hurt. As she felt light-headed, she fell to the ground.
She awakes and looks at her surroundings. She is no longer in her home, but somewhere else. Grass surrounds her, swings, a slide, she is at the park. Her mother sits right next to her on a bench. She studies her face, the aging lines on her mother are not there. She appears healther, happier. She shares a precious moment with her mom, a lovimg memory she doesn't want leave her.
"Momma!", she yells as she hugs her and smothers her with loving kisses. Oh how she missed her.
Her mother smiles understanding. "I missed you too."
Kairi laughs silently. "I should have done this long ago. Then we could have been together as we are now."
Her mother's look changes to happy and playful to serious. "Baby, you can't stay here."
A look of confusion crosses her face. "Why not, I am dead aren't I?"
"No, honey. But you need to let go to move on."
"Let go of what?"
"Me."
"I don't understand.", Kairi begins.
"You were never responsible for what happened. You need to know that. I did something stupid, its as simple as that. Don't punish yourself for it. Let go."
With that, Kairi began to understand. Not completely, maybe not at all, but she listened to her mothers words and did what she was told. She drifted away from the world she imagined, was it Heaven, she sure didn't know.
She gains conciousness and opens her eyes. She looks around and recognizes the room. She is in a hospital once more. The white walls, the white curtains, the scent of old people. Yeah. This is the place. A familair short woman with long curly hair greets her.
"Well, hello there, how are you feeling this morning, sweetie?", the short woman asked.
"I'm okay, I think.", said Kairi in a low confused voice.
"That's good, honey, you gave us quite a scare, you know."
Wow. Deja Vu. Hadn't this conversation happened before?
"I'm sorry.", she says. Yup same response.
They begin talking and she realizes what had happened. Her father had hit her that night nine months ago, he put her into a coma. She hadn't been able to respond until this day. She cannot yet walk nor move most of her body. But atleast she can talk, she no longer feels invisible.