Does Love Die?
In the past five months Yoh, Anna, Kalia and Atrus all lived normal lives. Things were working out and everything was good for them. The morning in particular was one of life's finer moments. Kalia, Atrus and their five month old baby girl named Gabrielle. Atrus drove, Kalia sat next to him in the passenger's seat and the baby was safely fastened in her car seat behind Atrus' seat, so Kalia could see her better. As they drove they heard the song Linda Linda on the radio, a very bouncy and popular song, which they both sang along to. They were both smiling as they were driving quickly down a large stretch of road. Out of nowhere came a large water truck who was on their side of the road for some reason. Atrus naturally swerved to the left causing the large truck to smash into the passenger side of their vehicle. Behind them a truck and trailer tried to stop but ended up spinning around causing the trailer to smash into the already very badly hit passenger side. Kalia died instantly. Atrus held her tightly, her legs were in pieces. He just clung to her and cried for a few moments, then looked our the area where a window had been and saw pieces of her legs. Having only achieved a few bumps and scrapes he ran our his door and picked up the pieces then ran them over to her, trying to fix the woman he loved to the sound of his daughter screaming, traffic and sirens, not to mention his own sobbing. The paramedics arrived while he was still doing this and her turned to them helplessly.
"I can't fix her!" he exclaimed over and over again before fainting on the spot.
He awoke in the hospital shortly after confused. Yoh was in there with him looking very grim.
"What happened?" asked Atrus. "Where's Kalia and Gabby?" he wondered with all sincerity. Yoh took a long time to answer.
"Gabby is with Anna. Kalia is dead Atrus."
"What?" asked Atrus still confused. "No she's alive, I brought her back. She's been alive for five months!" Yoh shook his head slowly.
"No, you were in a car accident. She died instantly."
"No." said Atrus. "She's alive, I brought her back. I brought her back!" he began to scream at Yoh and tears rolled down his cheeks. Yoh just stood silently, not sure what to say, unable to comprehend what Atrus was going through. He had completely filtered out the memory of the crash from his mind and probably believe that Kalia was alive, that they were still telling him she was dead from five months before. A doctor came in and did a couple tests on him, then discharged him from the hospital. Still suffering a great deal of confusion he went with Yoh to Yoh and Anna's house to see his daughter.
They walked in and were greeted with little Sakura crawling towards him. Just like Gabby, Sakura was growing like crazy. He couldn't believe that she was already crawling just like he couldn't believe his girlfriend was dead. He noticed Gabby laying and rolling on the floor and carefully picked her up and held her tight. He looked around again for Kalia but to no avail.
"Where is she?" he asked, still confused. Anna looked at Yoh.
"I told you." He answered." She died." Atrus shoved Gabby into Anna's arms and looked sternly at Yoh.
"Show me." He demanded.
Yoh first took Atrus to see his vehicle. It was badly smashed up on the passenger side yet the driver's side was perfectly fine, which would explain why he and his daughter were okay. He still couldn't believe what he was seeing so Yoh took him to the morgue. There she was, laying peacefully on the table. At leat the top half of her was, her legs were mangled with pieces ripped off entirely.
"No." whispered Atrus. "NO!" He began to scream. "You stupid fucking whore. Why would you do this! WHY DID YOU DIE? I SAVED YOU. " He began to sob and slump onto her. "Why… Stupid…" he mumbled as he placed his head on her chest. "no…"
Nobody knew what to do. Both Atrus and Anna were beside themselves. The only thing that could keep them sane would be for them to remember what they still have to love.
I'd like to dedicate this story to a man named John whose wife Linda recently died in a similar car accident. Linda was only 55 years old and did a lot of volunteer work in town so everyone knew and liked her. She had two daughters, one who just had a baby and one who's about to, and two step sons. It's very sad to see someone you know die.