Author's note: Okay so I was feeling a little generous today and had to upload a couple of chapters today. So I'm happy this was one of them ... because it's a mid-story cliffhanger. I hope you love it, and if you read it please review it. It means a lot, but is not mandatory, I just want to know if my readers are liking what's happening.
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Billy-
I enter my place and drop my keys and phone on the counter, and look around the empty space of my loft.
It feels like the vacuum of space in here without her, so big and cold but I look at the solid black stone sculpture across the room from me and smile.
"TV on," I say and watch the panels separate and slide back into place, the television flickers on. "Browser up."
The internet browser pops up to fill the screen, and I walk to my coffee table and pull my keyboard out of a drawer in its side.
I sit down and continue watching Sam and Carly's show. It's actually pretty good, random stuff, but good. The shows don't last long but I get lost in them as the hours pass and I watch Sam age in front of my eyes, becoming the beautiful young woman I dropped off earlier.
I feel the small needle like pain in my chest grow, it's been there since last night, I figure it's just from overworking.
But it's suddenly harder to breathe, and I begin to cough. I can't control it, and I see red flecks flying from my mouth onto the keyboard, God that's a lot of blood. The coughs keep coming, racking my body with pain, my ribs ache with it and my head pounds with each one.
Gotta stand, gotta get to my phone. Try to stand, have to walk.
The coughing won't stop, and the blood keeps coming, don't let me die like this, not now. God. Lord the coughs hurt, bursting out of me like small explosions.
I'm stumbling, can't keep my feet, vision's fading fast, I'm so light headed.
Can't… I'm…. falling.
Right before my vision fades completely, all I can do is… think about how much blood I'm coughing up.