Chapter 6
Telling the Truth
"It's Kevin. He's gone into coma." Those were the first words Wendy had heard when she finally awoke. Those were the same words that made her sit upright at once.
"What?" she said looking at her mum and Julie. Her mum did not look like usually did. Julie had a bandage around her head and hand.
"Wendy" cried her mum as she ran across the room and threw her arms around her. Intense pain filled her being as her mum's arm touched her.
She realised all her bones in her body hurt. It felt like a fire was burning inside her. Tears of pain flowed from her eyes. "Mum" she gasped.
Her mum left her and smiled sadly, "How do you feel? Wait! That's a stupid question to ask. Of course you're not feeling all right!"
Wendy smiled through her pain. Even in times like this her mother was the same no matter how different she looked. Always contradicting herself and rambling a lot.
"I'm fine mum." She said rolling her eyes at her answer. She looked across at her sister Julie who got out bed and walked over. Wendy tried to get up but realised her leg was in a cast. She winced in pain as she tried to lift it up.
"You both need to rest yourselves. The doctor said so" said her mum who was looking worriedly at Julie who was walking very-very slowly towards them.
Now that she was not sitting on the bed, Wendy could see that Julie had a similar cast although a bit smaller as the one to hers.
At least she can walk thought Wendy, even if it caused her a lot of pain at least she can lift it up and move it around however slow she would have to do it.
Finally Julie reached them. Both sisters hugged each other tenderly so as to not cause any pain. Since they could both feel the others pain.
They had both gone through the same things even though Wendy and Kevin had been on their own first until Julie was next in line to die.
The two sisters continued to hug each other but the moment was ruined when their mum went, "So what happened? Why did you jump of a building? I mean I knew it had caught fire and everything but how come these kinds of things always happen to you two? And Kevin. Explain yourselves."
Wendy and Julie exchange looks. Up until now they hadn't told their mum anything about Wendy's premonition or about the Grim Reaper. Their mum had thought that their friend's deaths had just been tragic accidents.
She had grown suspicious but she had never said anything. But it seemed that jumping off a building that was set on fire was the last straw for their mum.
"Well" said their mum, "are you going to say something or not?" Julie and Wendy looked at each other and silently agreed to tell their mum everything. And so they did.
They started from the Devil's Flight and Wendy's premonition to Ian's death. Their mum had looked white at first but was positively pale now.
When they finished a silence hung over them. Finally their mum took a deep breath opened her mouth and said, "Well, I guess I will have to believe you. Normally I wouldn't and have thought you were making it up but your reasons fit the explanations very well. I have no other choice but to believe you."
Wendy smiled. She had thought her mum wouldn't believe them but she did. This was good. As Julie and her mum talked Wendy realised that her mum hadn't answered the question she had previously asked.
Julie seemed to have come to the same realisation as they both went at the same time "What about Kevin?"