Goodbye
Warren didn't show up the next couple days.
Not to classes, or meals. Marie tried countless ways to talk to him through his door, but he wouldn't communicate with her. She knew it had something to do with Peter. Many times she considered running up to Peter and socking him in the face. He still hung out with Bobby and John, which surprised her, but Peter always seemed reluctant in doing their bidding with other kids at the school. Seemed Warren wasn't the only one they picked on. At first she left Warren alone, he needed space, but then she began to get worried. He was flying either. She hadn't seen him in days. She'd been slipping his homework under the door, setting food outside for him to get. Trying to make him come out, and talk to her.
One day, she got so fed up she found a pair of scissors and used then to open his door, shoving the sharp end into the key hole and turning. When she entered, she saw his window open, his room clean, and set up as if it hadn't even been used the past few days.
There was a note waiting for her on his bed.
It had nothing to do with you. But I must.
Peter will never see me. There's no point in waiting.
Everything's so messed up, it's better to just get it over with.
You're the only person that's ever loved me so fiercely, for that I am thankful.
Goodbye, W.
"No!" Marie shouted, racing out into the hallway, clutching the letter in her fist. Her mind racked for every place he could have gone to do it, every place he could go to kill himself. There was only one where nobody else could reach him in time.
The roof.
She bound down the hallway, shoving people out of her way, making her way to the outdoors. She passed Peter on her way and paused. "It's your fault!" She screamed, shoving the paper at him, and continuing to run. She ran as hard as she could, faster then ever, her heart beating so hard it hurt. Pain swelled up inside her. She knew she just had a little further. Maybe she could stop him, if she got there in time. She made it outside and looked frantically at the roof.
There, standing with his eyes closed, chest bare, wings folded back tight, was Warren, on the edge of the roof.
"No!" Marie screamed. "Stop!"
All of a sudden, three things happened at once.
Somebody else arrived; their arrival sent her falling to the ground, as they had jumped in. And lastly, Warren stepped off the roof, and began to fall.
She heard the screams, and the yells, the shouts, and the noise of impact. But Marie could not open her eyes.
No matter how hard she tried, she would not look at the picture before her.
OMG! GASP! Cliffhanger! Did Warren DIE? Who was the other person suddenly there? IS IT OVER????
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