CHAPTER 19
Title: Sorry
The rang bell on Lindberg High School, setting the last hour of the school day. Jimmy ran through the doors of the school trying to make an attempt to avoid his friends. He was sure mad. The moment he said those words to Cindy, everyone tried to make him understand.
'Understand what?', he thought. 'A killer? The person who I always loved really turned into my worst enemy! How can I forgive her? How they expect I would see those beautiful eyes again when a few days ago they were fully red?'.
He stopped running. He started walking as he shook his head. No, definetly, she wasn't worth it anymore. He heard some footsteps behind him. He turned around.
"Jimmy! Wait up!", someone shouted.
"I'm still not in the mood, Sheen. Whatever you want with me, you'll have to wait", Jimmy angrily told Sheen, who was trying to catch up his friend.
"Look, man. I know you're still angry about Cindy, but you can't blame her for everything. Dude, she has amnesia!", Sheen said as he tried now to catch some breath.
"Oh, yeah, so sorry, but let her try to kill us, again. Shall we? That makes sense!", Jimmy said, through clenched teeth.
"Aren't you gonna forgive her?", Sheen asked.
"No".
"Come on, big guy! I know you still love her!", Sheen said, poking Jimmy playfully on the arm.
"NO!", Jimmy shouted. "She's not worth it!".
A few tears rolled down Jimmy's cheeks as anger burned him more. Sheen shut up for a moment.
"You didn't see those red eyes and that genuine evil laugh! For God's sake, she even pulled a gun on my chest and tried to shoot me for real! How can I feel about that?", he explained, as he looked away, trying not to make Sheen take pity on him. He cried even more.
Sheen put a conforting hand on Jimmy's shoulder. "If this saddle things, Jim, Cindy's still telling us she's sorry".
"How do you know she's sincere?", Jimmy asked, glaring at Sheen with tears still in his eyes.
"Because she tells us that everyday at the hospital and she hopes you could visit her at least once", Sheen replied.
"Yeah, like I would go there", Jimmy muttered.
Not convinced, but with a face of dissapointment, his friend didn't say another word. When they reached Jimmy's house, they both went through different paths.
"Later, dude!", he waved. "I'm gonna see Libby...".
"Ok, and I'll be in my lab, still cleaning up the mess", Jimmy waved.
"ENTER YOUR PASSWORD", VOX asked.
"I hate Cindy Vortex", was Jimmy's answer.
"PASSWORD GRANTED. WELCOME HOME, JIMMY", VOX said, as the machine opened the door for him.
A few hours had passed, and Jimmy was exhausted because of the lot of junk he had to clean in his lab. When he was acting mad at Cindy the day before, something triggered in his body and told him to rebuilt his laboratory again. Perhaps, to stay away from her, like he wanted at the moment. He passed a hand through his sweaty forehead, as he looked at his shiny and new place. Some of his old inventions were now clean and they had a relucent form on the shelves. The bottles of flurp and beer were moved to the new trash grinder over one of the corners. VOX screen and keyboard were now clean and visible. The dust had no effect on them, except for the communicator, which was now a little more choppy than before. He took the Shrink Ray, and as he was cleaning it again, the alarm buzzed.
"Jimmy! Jimmy! Open up! Quick!", Sheen screamed through VOX's screen.
"We have bad news!", Carl, who was next to Sheen, screamed also.
"Come in", Jimmy said, as he pushed a button.
Both Carl and Sheen landed on the hard floor.
"You have to come to the hospital with us! This is an emergency!", Sheen said, as he rubbed his back.
"Why? What is it?", Jimmy calmly asked.
"Cindy is in a coma!", Carl yelled, crying on the process.
"WHAT?", Jimmy asked, surprised.
"The doctor said she had so many internal bruises that they affected her body!", Sheen explained with tears in his eyes, as Jimmy's surprised face grew more. "She may not wake up again, dude...".
Those last words struck Jimmy real hard, like a slap in his face.