Chapter 7. Enjoy! :P
'Luke... the sickness is killing you... you must decide!'
The oceanic-eyed hedgehog layed motionlessly, the dark abyss stretching out around him.
Lysander, it's been a few weeks... I'm still not ready to decide...
Lysander growled slightly. 'Is this about Luna?'
...I just want to know if she regret loving me and tossing me aside or not...
Lysander sighed. 'Just hurry up...'
Luke opened his eyes and sat up in his bed slowly, rubbing his eyes groggily. He looked around his barely lit room, before narrowing his eyes to look at the calendar.
May 15... That school dance is today...
'Yes, you should go and be with your friends, you haven't left the house much, except to go to school...'
But... whenever I do something strenuous I always start coughing and puking blood...
'I never said you had to dance, just go and hang around with your friends.' Lysander whispered.
Luke sighed, then nodded. "Fine.." He stood up and walked downstairs. He walked through the hallway until he got to the kitchen doorway. The windows were open and he could smell bacon and eggs being cooked. Zack was sitting at the table scribbling something down onto paper. Nazo stood at the stove. Zack looked up as Luke walked in, he then smiled at him and motioned for him to sit down.
Luke sat across from Zack, he choked down a nerve-wracking wave that almost consumed him as he saw the mischievous glint in his 'mother's' golden eyes.
"We're going out later to help Sonic and his friends get the seven Chaos Emeralds and the five Kinetic Emeralds. And the school called a little while ago, 'reminding' you of the school dance later." Zack laughed towards the end.
Luke nodded. "I was thinking of going with my friends."
Zack's eyes glowed slightly. "I was going to send you with them either way." Nazo suddenly sat a plate with eggs, bacon, and a slice of toast on it in front of him, then laid another infront of Zack. Luke looked down at the plate before he slowly began to eat.
He could feel the eyes of both of his parents watching him silently, Nazo's electric blue, and Zack's gold. By the time he finished eating he had to get ready for the dance.
He stood in the middle of his room as Zack whisked out a pure white button up shirt, black pants and a black and blue tie. He then helped Luke put the tie on once he had the shirt and pants on.
Zack eventually stepped back and clapped once. "Almost done."
Luke stared at his 'mother' confused.
'Almost?'
Zack walked out of the room, but returned a minute later with a small box in his left hand. Luke took the box from Zack's outstretched hand, then opened it. Inside of the box was a gold chain. Zack lifted the chain out and snapped it onto Luke's wrist. "Done."
Luke held up the wrist with the gold chain to look at it closer. There were tiny saphires dangling off of the chain. He heard a voice whispering in the back of his mind, but couldn't understand it.
He narrowed his oceanic eyes as he walked into the dimly lit room that had multi-colored lights flicking about. Scourion stood beside him, he wore a black button up shirt with black pants and his tie was white. He could see some of the other students dancing around to the pop music and others milling about snacking on random food items.
He couldn't help but notice some of the teachers standing along the side. He chuckled slightly. Scourion flicked his ear then pointed across the gym at their other friends. Luke nodded and started walking over that way.
His heart beat unsteadily against his ribs as he saw the blood red wolf that haunted his dreams and thoughts. Her red and black streaked hair was pulled back like it normally was, but she had on a long black dress and had a cut up the side from the bottom. S
he was standing next to Shock, whom was wearing a regular tux.
Marine and Flower were both wearing the same dress and were fighting about it.
His eyes finally met Luna's light blue, but she suddenly looked away from him, and back at Shock. He tried to hold back his cringe in pain when she did that.
She must still be angry with me...
'She'll get over it, Luke, just give it time..'
Ha.. time... that's the one thing I do not have...
Marine and Flower stopped fighting long enough to say 'hi' to Luke and Scourion before they went back to fighting. Scourion started laughing. They suddenly both turned ferocious glares on Scourion once he laughed. A blur of blue and purple tackled Scourion over, but you could still hear his laughing.
Luke stood off to the side awquardly as he watched his friends all dance. He sighed, but forced a smile when Scourion looked up at him from the random girl he was slow-dancing with.
He almost jumped as he felt a finger prodding his arm carefully. He looked to the side and saw Luna, she looked uncomfortable at being around him again.
"Yes?" He answered quietly, barely audible above the music.
"L..luke..I..was... just wondering if you'd like to... I.. uh...Dance with me?" She muttered quietly.
Luke stared at her incredilously for a second before he blinked.
"Won't..Shock dance with you?" Luke mumbled.
"We already danced... and I wanted to tell you I'm sorry once again..." The blood red wolf whispered.
Sorry isn't enough... but I'll take it...
Slowly, Luke nodded. "Alright. But I can't dance very fast.."
'Luke! Don't forget about the disease!'
Oh well, Lysander... Luna wants to dance with me, this is the closest we're ever going to be again...
Quietly, Luke took hold of Luna's hand and walked her out onto the dance floor. He quietly began to slow dance with her, his mind screaming at him to stop and that he could die. But.. he didn't care.
Luna smiled slightly. "Luke, we can still be friends, right?"
Luke barely nodded, before a spasm of coughs escaped him. He covered his mouth as he started to spit up blood during the coughs. His body shuddered convulsively, but he didn't spit anything up, yet.
Luna's eyes were wide in alarm and she was screaming for Scourion and the others, or a teacher.
Her calls were in vain.
The music was playing too loud, now. Luke fell to his knees, shuddering and coughing in spasms. A little blood splattered on the floor as he continued to cough.
A wave of nausea rolled over him again and he vomited blood once.
The world around him blurred. He heard Luna continuing to scream for someone to help. his eyes searched the blurring world. Suddenly, he could see the faintest outline of Lysander pulling out the chord for the speakers.
Luna yelled again when she could be heard. Luke was now lying on the floor, spitting up blood every few coughs.
Atleast I got my 'love song requiem'...
Ooh, drama!
