Fear of Falling, Chapter two-This is where it ends. PoV- 3rd person.
(The next day)
"This is it," Ami told herself. "The day to end all days." She yawned, got up from her bed, and got dressed. She grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and wrote:
"To my caring friends, dearest boyfriend, and loving family,
I'm sorry to say that I must leave you all now. Where I'm going, I can never come back. I wish there were words to describe how I feel for you all, but sadly, there aren't. But I hope you all know that I love you all, in different ways. If I could go back in time, I would, and change everything that made me feel the way I do now. Then maybe, just maybe, I'd have more time with you. Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way. Take care everyone, and live life to the fullest.
With love, Ami.
P.S. Mom, once I see him, I'll tell Takashi that you, Dad, and Mei miss him."
Ami sighed and taped the note to the front of her door. She quietly crept past her parents' room, and whispered, "Bye Mom, bye Father." She had never called her step-father "Dad," always "Father" or "sir". She hung her head and kept walking, out the door and into the woods next to the park.
She stopped only when she reached a tall cliff. What better way to go than by my greatest fear? she thought, looking down. She sighed and sat down on the edge, as memories came flooding back to her of her life. The first one was from her parents' divorce, when the custody battle took place.
She was six years old, Mei was seven, and Takashi was eleven. The three siblings were sitting in a courtroom. Takashi was hugging Ami, who was scared and crying softly, and Mei was staring off into space, in shock.
"From this day on, the youngest, Ami, and the oldest, Takashi, will live with their mother, while the middle child, Mei, shall stay with the father," the judge had said.
Ami had hated her mother ever since that day. She and her mother constantly fought, and when Mom remarried, both Ami and Takashi were furious.
Then, there were the nightmares. She hated those nightmares, and was glad to finally be rid of them.
They were always the same. A skeleton-man would send his army of monsters to capture her friends and family. When she tried to get the ones she cared about away from the monsters, Ami would find herself surrounded by beings that were almost exactly like everyone she was trying to save. These creatures had one difference, however. They were just shadows most of the time, but could become the complete opposites of those Ami loved. The Shadow People, as she had called them, never let Ami get any of her loved ones to safety. She was always forced to watch as they were all tortured and brutally killed. And just before she herself was killed, she always woke up.
She remembered that as soon as she woke up, Takashi would soon be at her side, no matter where in their home he was at the time. He always seemed to know when she was troubled, and just how to make her feel better. She also remembered the first night he wasn't in one of her nightmares. It was the night after he died...
She was 14, Takashi was 19. It was a Saturday, and they had spent all day at the park. Now it was nighttime, and the two siblings were heading home. They decided to race to see who would get home first, and so far, Ami was in the lead. She ran across the street, but stopped and waited for her brother. He started to run across, and didn't notice a car was speeding down the otherwise deserted road. Ami yelled at him to stop and wait, but he couldn't hear her. The car plowed right into him and sped off, the drunken person behind the wheel either not noticing or not caring that he had just hit someone. Ami screamed and ran over to Takashi. "Get up! Takashi, please," she said desperately, tears running down her cheek. "Don't give in! You have to wake up!" But he wouldn't wake, nor did he do as much as move. She suddenly remembered she had her cell phone with her, and dialed the police. They sent a police car and an ambulance to her and her fallen brother. Both were brought to the hospital, where their mother and stepfather were notified. Sadly, it was too late for Takashi; he died just before the ambulance reached the hospital.
The were others things bothering her, of course. Her father and sister, who hated her for some reason Ami never learned, moved to France when she was nine, among other unmentionable things.
Ami sighed and stood up. "Okay, this is it," she said softly, taking a deep breath and getting ready to walk off the edge...
(Cue suspense music. Sorry, I wanted this to be in three chapters, but the end is near.)