'This is real...'
A sob caught in her throat as she watched the man she was in love frown at her before turning his body away from her and begin walking in the opposite direction. The only thing that made sense to her at that moment was to run. "Please!" She screamed as her legs carried her towards him but she didn't appear fast enough for that he was already fading off into the distance quite a far ways away from where she was now standing. "Don't go!"
The sound of her word's echoed in his direction of hearing causing him to stop in his tracks and straighten his shoulders preparing himself it seemed in her eyes; For what, she questioned in her mind as she stopped suddenly while watching him with teary eyes. She hoped that he had taken pity on the girl's cries and decided to stay so he wouldn't have to hear her cry anymore over him. That was a single hope she was holding tight to, was for him to stay. She couldn't bare the sight of watching him leave her, not again. This entire time she was convinced he was dead, but when she opened up her eyes, instead of seeing the eyes of the old friend she was last with, she had stared into a deep blue green eyes.
It had to be a dream she tried telling herself when she awoke to his soft expression looking down at her , holding her tightly in his embrace. But if this was a dream, she didn't want to wake up just yet. Or maybe…it was reality, and thing's were finally going to work in her favor for once. Maybe this had all been a misunderstanding of some sort, that had to be it. But when he left her and began to walk away from, she knew it wasn't a dream but a nightmare instead. "Forget about me." The boy said in a stern voice, not even turning to look at her distraught expression upon her exhausted features.
She shook her head even though she knew he couldn't quite see her. "I can't." She muttered under her breath trying her best to control the shakiness in her voice so it wasn't that noticeable. Why was he being this way? If he was really here with her now, why wasn't he embracing her and basking in their moment that they were finally together again , she wondered silently as she looked down at the ground watching her tears fall silently on the white tile floor beneath them.
"If you refuse to do so, this is only going to make this much harder on you." He firmly stated after a few moments or agonizing silence that fell over the two teen's. "Your choice."
A pang of depression overwhelmed her heart hearing those shocking word's escape his lip's causing her to squeeze her eyes shut and tighten her clinched fist trying ever so hard at keeping her heart from ripping anymore then it already has. This wasn't the boy she had fallen in love with , this wasn't the real him but why was he acting so coldly to her was what confused and hurt her. "If you're leaving me again…" She paused for a moment to gather all her thoughts together. What did she really want if he was leaving her yet again? Was it for him stay with her and her friends like nothing had changed at all? She shook her head at that dying wish, he was never going to stay, she realized that after he said that blunt statement. He changed and she was just going to have to accept that even if she had to pretend to at least. "I want you to take me with you."
The boy let out a bitter laugh at the girl's innocence towards this subject at hand, she really was oblivious to everything. A smirk pulled up on the corners of his lip's as he turned his body to face the girl with his arm's crossed over his chest tightly. "You just don't get it do you, Jessica?" He stated rather then asked as he leaned forwards towards her, his smirk growing ever so slightly as she looked up at him with a rather puzzled expression so plainly obvious on her face. "I don't want you anymore."
The tear filled brown eyes of the girl's widened as well as her mouth when he spoke those word's to her causing her to take a couple unsteady steps back. He was lying, that had to be it she kept repeating. He just wanted her to resent him for everything so she wouldn't want to be with him any longer. "You don't mean it…" She whispered trying hard to believe in her word's as well.
His teal eyes rolled dramatically in his socket's as he suddenly appeared behind the girl causing her to gasp loudly while turning to face his circling figure around her. "You don't sound so sure of your own words." He said while his eyes traveled over her body as if he was analyzing her in his mind. "So how true could they possibly be?"
He doesn't mean it, he doesn't mean it, she kept telling herself over and over again as she shook her head at him. "They are true." He cocked an eye brow at her unsure express that she tried to mask by forming her lips in a tight line.
"Oh yeah?" He asked her with a sick smile that danced over his lips. "Is it because you think I actually like you, like I actually meant all those things I said to you?"
The heavy weight in her heart increased as he egged her on. It can't be true, I've spent most of my life with him, this isn't the way he really is. This is just a dream, a nightmare. None of this is real, but even though everything he said was a bitter remark towards her. She would rather have those awful words hit her right in the gut rather then having nothing at all. "Let me help you with this once more, since you can't seem to figure these thing's out for yourself." He whispered in her ear casing chill's to rush down her spine. "I lied."
Her breath caught in her throat as he pulled away from her and looked over her face awaiting for a response. He smirked when he saw her mouth gapping, trying to form words within them, but nothing would come to her; She was lose for word's. "Now go run along and go play damsel with your friend's." He said over his shoulder as he began to walk away from the stunned girl.
As she watched him walk away from her, her heart silently began to rip down the middle. She didn't know what to do, she didn't know what to say. She was useless. Right now, she is being given the chance at bringing him back, and she can't even do that right. What good was she for if she couldn't bring the man of her life back home with her, her friend, if he didn't want to come back with her? "Don't go!" She yelled as he opened up a dark portal. She didn't realize she had began running towards the man until she threw herself against his back and held on tight. "I won't let you go, not again!" She shook her head as tears rolled down her cheek's. "I wont let you…"As her word's left her parched mouth, the boy froze and shuddered under the connection from her arms squeezing him ever so dearly. Neither of them moved for that moment, none of them wanted to. He shook his head causing his bangs to fall over his closed eyes as he hung his head down low. He tried to get her to feel hatred towards him, cause with that hatred built inside her being, she would forget about him. Forget about all the memories and promises they had together, it would be best for her. If she didn't, she was never going to be well again, she needed to want to move on. "You can't make this easy for me can you…" He whispered softly to her.
The girl shook her head against his back at his statement. "I can't let you leave," She unwrapped her arms from his back and stood in front of her so she could take his rough hands into her own. "At least not without me."
A smile faintly tugged on the corners of his lip's as he let out a small chuckle. This girl was something else, he had to admit that. Even after all the things he said to her, she refused to let him go. She was always so forgiving, so innocent, but that's what made her the way she is; One of the only people that could ever make him smile and remember why exactly he still is here.
Something shook beneath their feet suddenly causing them to both look down quickly with a worried expression. Between them a sudden split in the ground formed and was expanding causing the couple to look up at each other with a confused look upon their face. "Ah!" Jessica screamed as the ground started to pull them apart from one another, their joined hands the only thing keeping them together. He tried hard to keep a good grip on her, but the floors began to cause a big hole to appear in front of both pieces of land.
"Don't let go!" He shouted at the girl as she rushed to the edge of her strip of floor trying her best to keep a hold of the boy. His eyes darted quickly around the white painted room trying to develop a plan but nothing came to mind.
Sweat began to build up between his brows as time was passing and he still had not figured out what to do. "What do we do?" She screamed as she got down on her knee's holding tightly onto the ragged piece of brick as their fingers began to slip from each others grasp. He looked at the girl with a horrified expression as their fingers there the only thing touching. He had to jump across, that was what he realized he had to do if he wanted to stay with her.
His body crouched down low as he prepared himself for the leap he was about to make. A shrill scream stopped him as his legs were about to leave the floor. Panic spiraled out of control throughout his body as the small girl's hand slipped from his grasp as well as from the hold on the floor then was sent falling forward into the nothingness before them.
The brown eyes of hers widened ever so slightly as she slipped off of the floor that was once beneath her then squeezed shut her eyes waiting for the impact. His own eyes widened as well and his throat tightened up as he watched the scene before in as if in slow motion. This couldn't be happening, he wasn't going to let it. They haven't gotten this far together just to have it all end like this, he was not going to settle for it in the least.
This was it, this was the end and she welcomed it with open arm's. She did all she could for the boy but she knew that was not even enough to save him from the darkness, but at least she tried. Maybe, just maybe , if she was to went away as well, that would be the impact that would change him which she has been hoping for. Maybe…her death would be a good thing, or at least she would hope her death would do some good at least rather then nothing.
He was determined not to let this happen, he wasn't going to let his reason of living die in front of him without even any action to stop it what so ever. His legs lifted him off the ground as he jumped over to the other side of the land , held onto the side of the ledge and threw his hand out towards the girl.
That was not the kind of feeling she was expecting to receive when she hit the floor, actually, this was nothing close to the feeling she had imaged. Her eye brows furrowed together as she felt a sudden pressure upon her wrist causing her to bit her lip attempting at holding back a scream from pain. A pale hand was wrapped tightly on her wrist, digging their nails into it, causing the girls eyes to follow it up to the man she last expected to see. He was grinding his teeth together with a look of determination across his face as he held onto the panic struck girl.
Her eyes began to tear up seeing the pain in his eyes as she tried to grab his arm with her other hand, but it was no use; They were not going to be able to pull her up. His hand began slipping from her wrist and eventually his hand slid into hers and he held on tight. "I'm slipping!" She panicked as their sweaty hands started to slip from between each others tight grasp.
He shook his head as he attempted at pulling her up, but that only made their hands slip faster from each others. There was nothing they could do, this was in fact the end of them. Tears rolled down her cheek's faster and faster with each dreading second that passed between them, neither of them saying a word but staring into each other eyes knowing this moment wasn't going to last. It made her smile a tad seeing him stand on the edge with her, even if this was the worst time to think about it. It meant that he had been lying to her before, he hadn't changed at least not in the way he was presenting himself. At least one good thing was coming from this all.
"This can't be happening." He spoke softly to his between gritted teeth. "Not like this."She put on a smile for him to show him things were going to be okay but the smile was erased when their hands departed from each others. "I'm sorry." She whispered as she began to fall and fast away from him, his horrified face seeming farther and farther away with each moment that passed.
Before her body had hit the floor she shot up in bed and began to hyperventilate while cradling her wrist in her hand softly . Tears poured out of her eyes as she began to scream out of fear of what had just happened and confusion as she gripped the sides of her head. A shape pain in her wrist caused her screams to stop abruptly so she could look at it. There was a faint forming bruise of thin fingers a lining her entire wrist. "It was real…" She whispered quietly to herself before another sobbing session a raised within her.
A hand was placed on the girl's shoulder causing her head to snap up the curious face of her friend Cloud. "He's alive." She said to the boy between her cries. "He's alive!"
Cloud stared at her with a frown as he shook his head softly at the girl. It hurt him seeing her like this, in this denial stage and crying over it. He thought Leon had told him that she had already accepted his death once and for all. "Jessica…" He said softly. "It was just a dream."
She shook her head violently as she looked up at him with a pleading look. "No, I saw him!" She argued back and held up her wrist. "This was caused because of him!" He balanced the girls wrist upon his rough hands and examined the bruise closely then sighed. When he went to check up on the girl throughout the night in case of her needing him, he remembers seeing her sleeping with a rather distraught expression while holding her wrist. She had to have done it to herself while having a nightmare, possibly the one that caused her to scream just moments ago waking the entire cabin up in the process. "You did this to yourself while sleeping." He said to her which made the girl take back her hand with a glare.
"No, I didn't." She said her voice shaking. "He was there…I know he was there." He was , wasn't he? The pain he had caused her in her heart while having that "dream" that Cloud referred to it as. The feeling was too real to have been simply made up or imaged. The bruise on her arm made it evident that it had not have been a dream, it was in fact real. Why couldn't he just understand that, why would she make this up? Why did she have to be so stupid and fall off the side of the plate form , if she hadn't done that, they could have been together right now.
"No, he wasn't." Those repeated word's caused her already broken heart to fall to the pits of her stomach each time those word's left his mouth. The word's echoed throughout her head which made her averted her eyes and focus them on the deep blue comforter she was clinching her hands to. Had it all been a dream, was his words really the truth? She bit down her bottom lip attempting at preventing another cry to escape her chap lips.
She was confused and didn't know what to believe which frustrated her greatly. "Sorry." Cloud said as he sat down on beside her on the bed. What startled the man was when the girl fell into his chest and began to cry while holding onto his shirt tightly. He didn't know what to do , he was never used to handling people in these kind of situations. Was he to hold her, if so, what should he say, what needed to be said? Nothing, he realized, nothing needed to be said cause there was nothing to be said at this moment. He slowly wrapped an arm around the girl and with the other, he balanced himself on the bed so they would not go crashing to the floor.
The only thought that was running through Cloud's mind as the girl held onto him crying, was "Why did this have to happen to them…"
'This is not happening... This can't be happening! It can't be...'