Shattered Soul

Chapter 12- Missing

My entire world froze when I heard those words. Had something happened to mom? I took a quick glance at Lenny and saw he was just as shocked

"Mom? What do you mean? What happened to her?" I could barely speak from shock

"Your mother is dead; I just picked up her soul and took her to Heaven," Sonia closed her eyes, visibly upset.

"Mom is… dead?" I heard Lenny's trembling voice. I turned around to look at him and saw he was close to tears again; I also noticed Angie and Hurley were staring at us. Well, actually, Angie was staring at us; Hurley was trying to look inside. I swam closer to Lenny.

"Len…" I whispered

Lenny didn't speak. He sat down from shock and looked at the ground, breathing deeply. I looked over at Sonia

"Why did she die? What happened?" I didn't mean to yell at her, but I was as shocked and pained as Lenny.

"She died of a broken heart…" Sonia replied sadly, "when she found out Lenny was supposedly dead, she couldn't take it…"

"How's Pop?"

"He thinks he lost both his sons, and now his wife. How do you think he is?"

I was devastated now. I could not believe it; I had hoped to see Mom when I went back to life, but she was gone now… tears began to roll down my cheeks.

"No…" I whispered under my breath, "no… no, damn it, no!"

"Frankie?" I whirled around upon hearing my name; I noticed both Lenny and Angie staring at me in disbelief.

"I have never seen you crying…" Lenny whispered

I sighed sadly. Like I said before, I had not cried since my grandfather Vitor had died about 13 years ago. Don't ask me how, because it might take me long. Anyway, Angie swam towards Lenny and me.

"Guys, I'm really sorry…" she whispered with sadness notable in her voice.

"It's okay," I replied; Hurley managed to peak his head inside,

"Hey, Angie, if you don't need me for anything else…" he asked.

"There's something else you can do, you can bring Frankie's body in here," Sonia replied, although she still had sadness and regret in her voice

Lenny looked at her in confusion, but he still had tears rolling down his cheeks

"Why?"

"Hey, don't you think it would be better to hide your brother's corpse in here where no one can find it and it wouldn't call the attention?"

Lenny remained silent at her reasoning. Angie opened the door of the garage and Hurley pushed my body inside carefully, first making sure there was no one around. I was silent; what could I say, anyway? After placing my body on the ground softly, Hurley said his goodbyes before going back to his home.

"Guys, I must go home," Angie spoke, "I have work…"

"Don't worry, you can go," Sonia whispered.

After Angie left, a wave of sadness waved over the three of us. Lenny didn't say any, thing else; he simply went to the bed, rested and apparently fell asleep. However, I could tell he wasn't really sleeping. I looked back at Sonia, who seemed about to cry.

"Sonia, are you alright?" I inquired softly, concern notable in my voice. It surprised me, since I don't usually let my emotions get the better or me.

"I'm really sorry, Frankie…" she spoke, close to tears

"It was not your fault; you just do your job…"

"But at what cost? Look at Lenny, he is devastated! I never realized the pain I caused when I took someone's soul to the afterlife until now!"

"Don't worry…"

After that, I did something I never thought I would do in my entire life: I wiped a tear that fell from Sonia's face with my fin softly. If my friends saw me now, they would never stop teasing me about "I had fallen in love with a fish". Sonia smiled at me.

"T-thanks… Franklin…" she whispered, her pure-white scales becoming slightly pink in a blush. Actually, I blushed as well. After a while, I decided to try and break the tension.

"… So… Angie was in love with Oscar the whole time?"

Sonia's mood seemed to lighten up, "I suppose she was, since I actually felt her pain,"

"I felt sorry for her… she is so cheerful, I never thought I'd see her suffer like that..."

Suddenly, I felt a chill down my spine; the kind of chills that I had when I sensed something bad would happen.

"Did you feel that?" I asked her

"Feel what?" Sonia tilted her head slightly in confusion

"I felt a chill…"

"Perhaps it was just the night air, don't freak out about it."

The night air? That made sense, perhaps I was just cold. I hoped so…

But in the morning I would realize I was wrong.