Chapter 2:
"Fuckin' bullshit, Sabin."
"What do you mean bullshit? I told you I have a lot on my mind, ok? I said I might miss the show."
"Well because of you, I got fucked over on my pay. Seems like you have a habit for being too late for shit."
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?"
"Nothing."
"No, say what you mean Alex, what the fuck was that you were saying?"
"If you would have been on time, Casandra wouldn't be dead. If you hadn't been dicking around, she would have never been alone. It's your fault, it's your fault she's dead!"
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"Hey! Sabin, wake up man." Sonjay shook Chris hard.
"Wha, huh?"
"You passed out again. Everyone's gone home. Come on." Sonjay helped him up. They went to the parking lot.
"Are you sure you're ok to drive home?"
"Yea, I'm ok."
"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow for that BCW show, right?"
"Yea, see ya."
Chris hopped into his car and headed home. He turned on the radio to have something distract him from thinking. System of a Down's 'Lonely Day' played.
Such a lonely day
And it's mine
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Should be banned
It's a day that I can't stand
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Shouldn't exist
It's a day that I'll never miss
Such a lonely day
And it's mine
The most loneliest day of my life
He started to sob.
And if you go
I wanna go with you
And if you die
I wanna die with you
He broke out into a full cry, and slammed the radio off. He pulled over to the side of the road and kept crying. He hadn't had a chance to grieve for Casandra and it all started to come out. He had been more angry then anything. Angry at himself, for not being there to save her. Alex was right, if he would have just went straight there, she would still be alive. Just then he stopped crying. Just plain stopped.
'And if you die, I want to die with you'
Those lyrics made him realize what had always been in the back of his mind. He didn't want to live without her. He started up the car and drove, drove with a deadly intent. When he reached his destination, he stopped the car. Chris slowly got out and walked over to the edge of the bridge he was parked on. He swung one foot over the side and then the other. Now he was sitting on the rail.
"I'm sorry, Casandra. I'll see you soon." with that, he leaped off the bridge, holding his breath, waiting to hit the freezing water.
But he never did.
When he opened his eyes, he realized he was on his back in the middle of the bridge. He looked down at his waist and saw a arm slung over it. Then looked to his left and saw the back of a head of a person with two black pig tails. The person lifted their head and he saw it was a girl.
"What in the name of God do you think you're doing?"
"Was trying to kill myself, now if you will excuse me," he removed her arm. "I have something a need to Finish." he started back toward the edge of the bridge.
"Hey stop it," the girl grabbed his arm. "Just stop for a minute. Why are you trying to kill yourself?"
"You wouldn't understand."
"Well yea if you don't tell me what's wrong. Look my name is Karin. What's yours?"
"Chris." he said, still looking at the edge of the bridge.
"Look Chris, whatever you're upset about, killing yourself isn't the answer."
He looked at her, it was the first time he got a good view. She was about 5'6, had long pretty black hair, wore all black and had a very beautiful face beneath silver rimmed glasses.
"I saw you trying to 'buy the cow' and I ran over here as fast as I could. A friend of mine committed suicide and I just couldn't sit there and not do anything."
"Who are you, Batman? You go around saving people?"
She chuckled.
"No, I'm just someone who doesn't like seeing people in pain, is all."
His heart softened at the sound of that.
"Hey Chris, what's your last name?"
"Sabin."
He waited fof her to start freaking out over him being a wrestler.
"Hmm, nice name."
In his mind an animated verson of himself had a big tear drop on the back of it's head. Signaling dumbfound-ment.
"Well, what's yours?"
"Stone."
He stopped breathing. Did she just say Stone? The same last name as Casandra?
"What's wrong? Does my name suck that bad?" she laughed.
"No, just someone I used to go out with had that last name."
"Oh. Well sorry if I brought up hard feelings." she smiled.
He didn't smile back.
"Oh, maybe I DID bring back hard feelings. I'm sorry."
"Oh no no," he snapped out of his trance. "It's ok, I'm not mad or nothing. Just a little caught off guard."
"Ok, that's good. Well, I got to get going, but I want to make sure you don't try again." she nodded toward the edge of the bridge.
"Oh, I'm not, it was a lapse in judgment. I'm ok now."
She looked at him like she didn't believe him.
"I swear."
"Alright then. Bye." she started to walk off into the distance.
"Wait a minute, can I get your number?"
"Sorry, I don't give that out on the first date." she yelled to him. "Oh ha ha."
"But you can have my AOL screen name. It's BlackMagicWoman21!" with that, she disappeared into the night.
Chris walked back to his car and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen out of his glove compartment. He wrote down the s/n and started up the car.
"What the hell was that?" he mumbled to himself as he drove off.