March 17, 1981, 7:30AM - Cathy's Home, her bathroom. She takes a bottle of Tylenol from the medicine cabinet and opens it, counting the pills into the palm of her hand.
Through early morning fog I see,
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize that I can see, that
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please...
The game of life is hard to play
I'm going to love it anyway.
The losing card I some day lay
So this is all I have to say
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please...
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please...
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
'Is it to be or not to be'
And I replied 'oh why ask me?'
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please...
...and you can choose the same thing if you please.
Twenty-three pills out of a fifty pill bottle. She takes them five or six at a time with gulps of water to chase them down...
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March 16, 1981, 1:30, Sixth Period, Bookroom Service Room, between the Math and Science sections.
"I am not feeling well, Fernando. I have not been all week." Cathy looks at me with a slight green tint to her face.
For the past several days Cathy has not been herself. She has not been active or jumpy, and she definitely not been intimate with me. Something was definitely wrong. I have been trying my best to help her through out the day where ever I can, even bringing her a lunch from cafeteria. But this is getting worse, and we decide to take her to a doctor, though I stated that she should see mine, she decided to go to the free clinic and have me take her there. I did.
I waited for her in the patient waiting room as her appointment was long. She returns from seeing the doctor, still sick looking but with a better hold her of herself. I take her by her arm and walk her out of the building. She remains silent until we have walked up Flatbush Avenue. She takes a trotting step in front of me and forces me to stop.
Cathy puts her hand onto my chest as she looks at me, possibly scared for the first time I have seen her in a very long time. "Fernando..." She hesitates for a moment, "I'm pregnant."
I stand there for the moment, too shocked to say anything but eventually do, "I see."
The last time we had sex was on Valentine's Day. We both turned 18 recently, she on January 5th and I on February 2nd. I decided to take a tiny bit of my money I have saved and spend it on her. We ended up spending the night in a hotel room, making love to one another like if we were programmed to do. Our friend Juanita covered for us.
"You know I can't keep it." Cathy says as a tear started to run down her face.
"It's... uhm, if there is anything I can do for you, I'll do it." I say to her, throwing in, "Money, one of my doctors, anything."
Cathy wipes the tear from under her eye, "I know. It's OK." She then lifts herself on her toes and kisses me on the check, "I love you."
"I love you, too." I tell her.
"Just do me the favor of bringing me here tomorrow and then take me home again." She says.
"Tomarrow?" I ask.
"That's when I am scheduled for an abortion." She answers.
"I see." I say to her before releasing a sigh, "I will do it."
"Fernando?" Cathy calls to me. I look at her, "I know how you feel, about how you told me you almost became an abortion if it were not for your father stopping your mother from terminating you. I feel the same pain too."
"It's OK, Cathy. I'm not holding anything against you because of it. I just do not want Randal to hurt you if he were to ever find out." I say to her.
"I'll tell him that it was his, and even though I would be marrying him in July, that it would not look good if I was up at the alter with a big belly." She explains.
"It's... OK Cathy. You do not have to explain it to me. Love does not need any explanations. Seriously." I tell her.
"If there was another way..." Cathy begins to say.
"Its OK." I say to her, and then asking, "When is the appointment?"
"3:30. We can go here after we meet at 1E17 after eighth period." Cathy tells her.
"Would you like a pizza or soda or something before taking you home?" I ask.
"That would be nice. I would like to go to that pizza place on Court Street." She says.
"It's a walk but we can go." I tell her. Some ten blocks of zigzagging street crossings away, almost a half-mile in distance to get there.
Along the way she asks for some change to call he family on a payphone to get her that she was going to be late. We get there almost thirty minutes later. We order a couple of slices and a soda. As we eat at a booth, her sisters come into the restaurant. The three of them stand looking at me.
"We'll take her home from here." Carol says to me sternly.
"Uhm..." I tried to say but Cathy speaks for me.
"All of you sit down." Cathy tells them. They reluctantly do so and look at her. Corin sits next to me with Katherine next to her, and Corin next to Cathy. After a sigh Cathy continues, "I'm pregnant."
Katherine gets up and lunges at me though Corin keeps her in place.
"It's Randal's." Cathy says loud enough for her twin to hear. Katherine turns to face her twin though she was being held back by Corin from trouncing on me. "Yes, it's Randal's." Cathy continues, "And I can't keep it. You know, I can't be at the alter with a six months pregnant belly."
"Why is he here?" Katherine tries to dredge something up.
"He's my friend, you know that. And he is going to help me get an abortion. Tomorrow at the free clinic. Then he is going to take me home." Cathy tells her.
"Just like that? Bullshit." Katherine lets out.
"You giving him nookie on the side too?" Carol lets out.
Before Cathy says anything, I tell them, "Look. I do not know where you get off on getting on my case, but Cathy has been an excellent friend, helping me with my handicap at school and with math class and with my break up with an ex-girl friend who basically wants me dead. OK?"
"Ex-girlfriend?" The three of them asks.
"You're talking about Mary?" Cathy asks.
"Yeah." I say.
"What do you know about her?" Corin asks before the others.
"I read every pink envelope perfume scented note she sent him because he could not read them for obvious reasons." Cathy tells them.
"Pink envelope?" Katherine asks.
"Perfume scented?" Carol asks.
"She wants you back, doesn't she?" Corin asks as she looks at me.
"She wants him dead." Cathy tells her.
"Alright, what you did to the nice girl?" Katherine asks.
"I read those letters. At first she wanted him back, but then there was something there that was not right. The last letter said that she would do him what he did to her friends who attacked him." Cathy says, drawing their attention.
"Look, you girls want anything?" I ask, throwing in, "My treat."
Carol points at Katherine and tells her to order a couple of pizza pies and a large 64 ounce soda. I take my wallet out and hand it to Cathy, "Take a twenty from there."
"If it were me I would take it all." Carol says out loud.
"I can trust Cathy. I wish I can trust you all like I do her." I tell her.
"You can trust me." Corin says loud enough to be heard.
"You're just saying that so you can get into our panties, like you did with our sister." Carol tells me. Katherine walks back to the table from making the order and hears this.
"I think he's kinda cute." Corin lets out.
"I wish I could say the same." I let out.
"You calling us ugly?" Carol leans over the table.
"Look, he can't see." Cathy tells her.
"Since I can't see, I only know what Cathy looks like through my fingers. I don't know what she looks like except for what I can feel and what she tells me." I tell her.
"So you don't know that she's an albino?" Carol asks.
"Except for what she explained, no." I tell her.
"So you do not know that she is white skinned, blonde haired and green eyes and her twin is the same way and Corin and I are black." Carol tells her.
"I just know that you're all girls. Color means nothing to me, even though Mary was also black and that was before I went blind from my accident, so I know what she was like and can apply the same you all." I tell her.
"Yeah right." Katherine says loud enough to heard.
One of the counter people arrives with the two pies and a large bottle of soda inside a paper bag. The girls tell him "Thanks." as Cathy reaches over and hands him the twenty and receives fifteen dollars back. She then slides my wallet back to me and holds onto my hands as I get the wallet. With the counter person gone, Carol and Katherine return to their nasty disposition.
"I'm going to let you know that Cathy and I are twins, but we are nothing a like." Katherine tells me.
"We know that you two have done it. So how do you know that it's not his?" Carol hisses at Cathy.
"Because I had my period after I did with Fernando, but Randal was the only one I have done it with recently and not only I missed my period, I got morning sickness. Fernando took me to the free clinic to get me checked out and I found out today that I'm pregnant. Tomorrow I'm getting the abortion and Fernando is going to take me there and bring me home like he is doing today." Cathy tells her.
"He's not taking you home, we are." Carol tells her, before turning to me, "Thank you, Fernando. We'll take her home from here."
"Uhm..." I begin to say.
"You going to argue with me?" Carol almost barks at me.
"No. It's just that I don't know where I am." I tell her.
"What you mean you don't know where you are?" Carol mocks me.
"Carol!" Cathy holds back from yelling at her, "We, Fernando and I, practiced him getting on the train to go home on from taking me home. He knows where the train is where we live but he does not know where the train is here."
Carol looks at Cathy for a second, then at Katherine.
"This is Court Street. When you leave the place, turn left and go up three blocks and turn right to cross the street. Less than half way down the block is the train station Boro Hall." Carol explains to me.
"Carol!" Cathy lets out.
"He's on his own here." Carol tells her.
"But..." Cathy begins to say but Carol interrupts her.
"But nothing. We're going. Girls, lets go." Carol tells her before sliding the pizza boxes and bagged soda to Katherine. She then takes Cathy by the hand and pulls her out of the booth.
"Fernando..." Cathy tries to say as Carol pulls her away from me and the booth. Katherine takes the food and follows them, though Corin stays for a moment.
"Thank you." Corin says as she takes my hands and kisses me on the cheek.
"Corin!" Katherine yells from the restaurant entrance.
"I'll have her call you tonight. OK?" Corin says. I nod before Katherine yells out her name again. Corin leaves the booth, running to the exit where Cathy's twin was.
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March 17, 1981, 2:40PM, Ending of 8th Period in front of 1E17.
I wait for Cathy to arrive before the other Shortfellows do. I had cut my last class, which will bring questions from Evadney when I show up for school on Monday but until then, I have something very important to do. Catherine arrives five minutes later. I reach out to her and she takes my hands.
"You ready for this?" I ask as she lean onto me.
"No, but like you say all the time, I have to be... ready." Cathy says to me.
"Alright, lets take our time getting there." I say.
Together we walk out of the building out of the North East exit and turn down onto DeKalb Avenue. From there it's a 5 long blocks to Flatbush and another four blocks on Flatbush to the free clinic. As to not cause any strife, I do not ask why she did not call last night. She brings up the subject anyways.
"I'm sorry for not calling you last night." Cathy says.
"It's OK. Jorge had the phone tied up last night anyways." I reply.
"I have the same problem with my sisters." Cathy explains.
"Yeah, but there are four of you at your place. It's just me and him at mine." I explain.
Cathy lets out a sigh, "At least Corin likes you. I swear, its like she is my twin and not Carol and Katherine's Carol twin and not mine."
"Well, we all know about my twin." I let out.
"Yeah. When he was here I could not tell you two apart even though you two grew up 1200 miles apart." Cathy says.
"This world is a strange place." I say to myself.
"How is he doing?" She asks.
"I don't know. I say fine but it's not like we call everyday. We live our own lives." I answer.
In a couple of minutes we walk into the free clinic where she registers for her appointment. We wait in the waiting room where she is immediately called and in a couple of minutes I was called to verify that I was escorting her home after the procedure. I go back to the waiting room and wait for her. It was probably the longest ninety minutes I have ever waited.
I was called to her recovery room where she was sitting on the examination table. The doctor gave me a list of things to look out for like uterine/vaginal bleeding that would not stop or a high fever. I take the list and fold it to put in my pocket before taking Cathy's hands. The doctor tells her that we can have five minutes of alone time before she has to go home.
I hail for a cab as soon as soon we step out of the free clinic. I give the directions to take her home, handing ten dollar for a four dollar ride. We get there in less than five minutes. Cathy remains strangely quiet for the time we ride the cab and when we get to her apartment. At least in the elevator she holds me tightly.
Though Cathy has the keys to her place, I knock on her home's door. Carol opens it and sees us standing there. Their sisters were behind her, Corin takes Cathy by the hand and takes her to her bedroom. I remain standing in the hallway.
"Go home." Carol tells me.
I pull out the medical list and hand it to her, "The doctor gave that to me. It's things to look out in case Cathy gets sick or something."
"We know about that. This is not the first abortion she or we had to go through an abortion." Carol tells me.
"OK then. Take care." I tell her before turning away to go get the elevator.
"No, wait!" Katherine says before stepping around her older sister and out into the hall. She takes my hand and pulls me into the apartment, taking the door from Carol and closes it. I lean against the door as she leans towards me, "Look. We may not like you, but thanks. I just wish we knew each other better."
"Why do you two hate me so?" I ask.
"Because you are a threat to this family, Fernando." Carol answers bluntly, "A threat to what we have to do in order to survive, a threat to a marriage that was prearranged before anyone one of us was born. A threat to everything. On top of that, you are a boy."
"What does being a boy has to do with anything?" I ask.
"You are a boy, who wants to get into a girl's panties and right now those panties you are looking at is Cathy's." Carol lets out.
"I'm not like that." I try to reassure her, failing.
"I bet if Katherine here dropped her panties that you would pounce and hump on her ass." Carol tells me.
"I'm not like that at all." I try telling her, it falls on deaf ears.
"You're a boy, you got a vagina-seeking penis in between your legs. I've told you in the past to leave Cathy alone and you haven't. Is it because she's easy? It ends, Fernando. You are not to see her ever again. " Carol tells me.
"Cathy is my friend, I will never abandon her when she calls for my help. Just like I would not abandon you as her sister if you called me for help. I do not know where you come off coming telling me what I can or can not do, but I act out as needed, not because I want too." I tell her.
Before Katherine or Carol could say anything, Corin steps out of their bedroom calling to them, "Kathy, Carol. Is Fernando still there?"
"What for?" Carol asks.
"Cathy wants to see him if he is still here before he goes." Corin explains.
Before Carol could say anything, Katherine grabs me by the shoulder and almost literally shoves me through the hallway of their apartment. Putting her hand on the back of my neck, she leads me to their bedroom, "Come on, you don't leave my twin sister waiting."
It only takes us a few seconds to get to the bedroom. Cathy was lying on the bed she shares with her twin, not having changed out of her clothes but has her shoes off in the least, looking exhausted. She turns to face me and takes my hand.
"I'll be fine, Fernando. Just to let you know that I may not be in school for the next day or two." Cathy tells me.
"It's OK, Cathy. I'm just a phone call away. Besides, tomarrow is Friday. Take a three day weekend and come back to me when you're OK." I say to her.
Cathy smiles at me for a moment before saying, "Come here."
"I'm already here." I reply.
"I want you to give you a kiss, silly. Now come here." Cathy tells me. I lean over to her, slowly putting my lip onto hers. She wraps her arms around my neck and holds me in place as she increases the intimacy of our kiss. After a couple of minutes she lets me go. "Good bye, Fernando."
"Goodbye, Cathy" I tell her.
I walk out of their room and down the apartment hall to the exit. Carol and Katherine were right behind me. I grab the doorknob to open the door to leave, finding their arms holding it shut from behind me. I turn to face them.
"Alright. If you want me out of your lives, I'll leave Cathy alone." I tell them.
"You better not leave her." Carol tells me sternly.
"You can't, you wont. Not my twin sister." Katherine tells me just as sternly.
"What brings on this change of heart for me?" I ask.
They both look at each other for the moment before Katherine answers, "Look, she, we, all of us never had a friend like you. OK?"
"You made some promises to Cathy, and despite it all, you have kept those promises. You are not going to give up on her or on us because of us. You understand what I'm telling you?" Carol tells me.
"I think so." I reply.
"Look, we will continue to be hard on you but at least you got our respect and trust. I'm requesting that you be there for her." Carol says.
"My phone number should be somewhere in her notebook, in the math section I think. Call me tonight if anything changes. OK?" I reply to her.
"We will." Carol says.
"Will that be all?" I ask, noticing that they have not let go of the door.
"Just one more." Carol says before getting out of Katherine's way.
"Look. I did not liked it when on that day you grabbed me from behind and molested me in my own kitchen when you thought I was Cathy. But, yeah. I'm sorry for hitting you that day." Katherine says.
"Alright. You're forgiven." I say to her.
"There's more." Carol tells me but looks at Katherine.
"Alright." Katherine begins, "Thank you for helping me with that situation I had with Raul last year."
"Well, that's over with." I say to myself more than to her.
"There's more." Carol tells me but continues to looks at Katherine.
"I'm not going to tell him that!" Katherine lets out.
"You have too. Now say it." Carol demands from her. I wanted to say something but don't, Katherine on the other hand was getting nervous. "Say it or I will." Carol tells her.
"Alright! Damn it, I swear!" Katherine says to her before turning to me, "Look. Fernando. Do not get mad at Cathy or me for this. OK?"
"What is there to get mad about?" I ask.
"We've twin switched on you a couple of times, and on those make out sessions you have with her, a couple of times it was me." Katherine lets out.
"I... See..." I say to myself.
"Look. I'm not in love with you or anything, but you're a nice guy and all and I can see why Cathy likes you. I like you too but not at the extent she does and I am going out with somebody else. When we switched on you, it was to test you." Katherine explains.
"You're dating nobody unless you're talking about Big Fingered Freddie De-Nial and his five friends." Carol lets out as she holds out her middle finger.
"Hey!" Katherine lets out.
"I wont hold it against you or Cathy." I say to her.
"There's more." Carol tells me.
"What do you want me to tell him, damn it?!!" Katherine asks.
"The truth, like how you want to have sex with him like here and now to tell him thank you for supporting us. And how at times you wet your panties thinking about him or when Cathy comes home from school after a make-out session with him and you pick up his scent off her." Carol throws at her.
Katherine stands there not believing what she is hearing.
"Look. It's getting late. It's best that I go home now." I tell them.
"You're not leaving until she tells you everything." Carol tells me. She then turns to Katherine, "Well?"
"Tell me what?" I ask.
Carol looks at Katherine sternly until she caved in.
"You remember a time when you and Cathy were making out and then she sucked your dick?" Katherine asks.
"That happened about three times as I remember it. Don't tell me that was you?" I say to her.
"They were. All but one of them. The first time it was her, the other times it was me." Katherine answers.
"You're trying to get me in trouble with Cathy, is that it?" I ask.
"No." Katherine begins, "I mean, look. It's consensual between us two in what we do with you. But Cathy does love you a lot, I just like you enough to want to fuck you, if you can understand that."
"So if I were to take you to that couch right now, and started something with you, it might carry on into going all the way with you?" I ask Katherine.
"If Cathy was feeling any better, she might join us." Katherine answers.
"Corin and I might join in as well and it would be us four on you. But we will have to wait and see how that goes in the future." Carol throws in.
I stand there not believing what I'm hearing, then one question comes to my mind, "Can I ask, were you girls raped or molested? I mean, I know Cathy was and she's sexually extroverted to me because of it."
Carol answers before Katherine does, "We all were, though Cathy was raped the most times out of all of us. And Corin is introverted because of the rapes than extroverted while Katherine and I was defensively extroverted. But if such a situation comes up, you might have four Townsend girls sharing that big dick of yours."
I look down at the floor for a second, "What if, Katherine, we went all the way and you got pregnant?"
"We would have dealt with it, gotten an abortion, and you would not know it was me, thinking it was Cathy instead." Katherine tells me.
"So why are you telling me all this now?" I ask.
"Because we care about Cathy, for she is one of us." Carol tells me.
"And that we do not want her to get hurt, not that you ever would hurt her." Katherine continues.
"But because of you, she might get hurt by others." Carol finishes.
"You mean by Randal." I say out loud though it was meant to be to myself.
"And people say you're dumb." Carol says.
"Look. If Randal were to ever hurt Cathy, I would hurt him more. That's my promise to you all." I tell her.
"One more thing." Carol says to me.
"What's that?" I ask.
Katherine answers for her, "We know it was your child she aborted today."
"How do you know?" I ask, adding, "Other than that Twin Mind Sharing thing."
"Cathy and I, in fact all four of us, would have our periods at the same time. But last month, when she disappeared to Juanita, when she returned, she missed her period. And we know Juanita was covering for you so that Randal would not find out." They both say together, "Don't worry, he will never know."
"Thanks." I tell them.
"Before you go, Fernando." Carol says to me.
"What?" I ask.
"If there was another way, we would have taken it." Carol says.
"Thanks, but I think I know that now." I tell her.
"Fernando?" Katherine calls to me. I turn and face her as she continues, "Do not think I am a slut or a hoe or anything like that. I'm just a girl that has needs like my twin does, Cathy's twin and she's lucky to have you as a friend. If I was going to Tech, we would be friends too. But I don't love you like she does, just like you. Hope you can understand the difference."
"I know." I say mostly to myself.
I try the door one more time but Katherine was still holding it. She then begins to lean towards me, planting her lips on mine for a more than needed intimate kiss. I just lean up against the door and allow it to happen, letting my body make a liar out of me as the intimacy builds. Then I can feel her unzip the zipper of my pants and her hand goes into my briefs and her finger wrap around my hardening penis, pumping it. Then another kiss at the same time on my cheek by my ear, though it was Carol for the moment. They both pull away from me at the same time. This exposes that it was Carol's hand in my pants and not Katherine's as I first thought. They both look at me for the moment.
"I think I should leave before we get carried away." I tell them as I gently put my hands into my pants to get hers out.
Carol takes her hand out of my pants, "Yeah." She closes my zipper up gently and then puts her hand on my chest, "Consider this as a date. What are you doing Memorial Day Weekend?"
"Uhm... Watching the Indianapolis 500 Race on Sunday but I should be free after that. Why?" I tell her.
"Our parents will be out down south for the weekend. We want you to be here with us. Cathy should be better by then is there are no complications to her abortion." Carol says.
"I don't know." I started to say.
"Do it for us, please?" Carol asks.
"More importantly, do it for Cathy." Katherine says.
"I'll see what I can do, other than the race, my family might want to drag me out somewhere. OK?" I tell them.
"OK then. Be here. It would be the four of us with you." Carol tells me.
"OK. But no promises, because it depends on my family as well." I tell her.
"I'll accept that." Carol tells me before opening the door. She then pushes me out into the hallway before slamming the door shut, in her typical 'I hate you' style.
I go home with a lot more on my mind than there should be. And I think, if anything, the girls were doing what they did to thank me.
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March 18, 1981, 7:30AM - Cathy's Home, her bathroom.
Cathy takes a bottle of Tylenol from the medicine cabinet and opens it, counting the pills into the palm of her hand. Twenty-three pills out of a fifty pill bottle. She takes them five or six at a time with gulps of water to chase them down. It does not take an immediate affect, it would take time.
Cathy gets dressed and ready to go to school, but misses first period math with me. By third period, I'm in Technical drawing messing around with Evadney because she initiated it. But in mid period, Juanita runs into the class with her Dean's Office Pass and gets me out of the classroom, literally throwing Evadney off my lap.
"What's going on?" I ask her as she drags me through the halls.
"It's Cathy!" Juanita let out as we continue to run, "She's taken a whole bottle of Tylenol in order to kill herself because she had an abortion yesterday!"
Eventually she takes me to the area under the auditorium stage, a make out post Cathy and I share as we have the keys to enter it. I did not know Juanita had the keys or that she barrowed them from Cathy. In either case, there Cathy was, sitting on the stairs, not looking her best, in fact worst than before she got the abortion.
I look at Juanita, "I'll take care of this. Now leave and let me do my job."
"But..." Juanita tries to interject.
"Get Out." I tell her sternly that it scares her away. I walk over to Cathy and sit next to her. "What's going on? Juanita told me you took a bottle of pills."
"I don't want to live anymore, Fernando. I killed a life. A life you and I created." Cathy tells me through her tears.
I put my arms around her, she does the same with me.
"We'll have other changes to create a life out of the love we share." I tell her.
"It's too late. I took the pills this morning, and now I feel stick to my stomach. I'm gonna die, Fernando." Cathy says.
"Then I do not want to leave you. Not ever, until the angels take you away and they will have to fight me for take you." I tell her.
"I'm going to hell. Hell because I killed myself and because I killed a life I was carrying." Cathy says.
"Look. I love you and I forgive you, Cathy. Satan is not going to take you, not if I have anything to say about it. And I will damn god and all of his creation if he lets you die. I am demanding that a miracle happens on this day, today, here and now, with all the powers I have, you will live. I promise you that." I tell her.
"It's not possible." Cathy cries.
"Then sleep, sleep here in my arms and things will be OK when you wake up. I promise you that." I tell her. She does not answer, just breathes heavily.
By the time the fourth period bell rings, she sleeps. I can feel her heat beating, slowing down as I concentrate on her, powers and super strength be damned if nothing happens and she dies.
My head begins to hurt as I go into a state between sleep and altered state of reality. There they were, the angels and demons to collect one more. But I stand in front of her, daring anyone of them to cross the line in the sand where I drew it.
Her heartbeat slows, feeling like it skipping beats like mine always does. But the time between each of her beats gets longer, until there was none. I hold her tightly against me as somehow she holds tightly to me as well. I can feel her growing cold in my arms while in that other place I fight off anyone who dares cross the line. Nobody is going to collect Miss Catherine Townsend, not if I can help it.
It is a long fade to back, warm turning cold around me.
A shock to the senses activates my nerves into reacting, my brain into consciousness.
"Its about time you woke up." Cathy tells me, the smell of some old smelling salts from an old first aide kit burns the nose, but another smell also offends the nostrils. I notice on the floor by the corner, a sandy liquid pile of round grey pebbles reeked the area.
"You OK?" I asked.
"I woke up an hour ago and threw all that up." She says to me as she looks down on the ground. Then she looks at me, "Thanks for forgiving me and giving me a second chance."
"What time is it?" I ask.
"It's 6:30PM. The school is closed and we are stuck here unless we set off the alarms." She explains.
"There is more than one way to get out of this building..." I tell her.
Following my footsteps, Cathy and I tiptoe through the halls, in my mind going through twelve floors of mazes in which only three can let you out. Listening for the high frequencies chirps of the ultrasonic alarms, I find a way out where the sensors do not find us. We stand at South Elliot Street outside of the school building.
"How did you do it?" Cathy asks.
"Do what?" I ask.
"Save my life? For a second there I was dead." She asks and says.
"Do not question how I do things, just accept that I can get them done." I tell her.
"What if I decide to do it again?" She asks.
"You wont. Because I will be there to stop you." I tell her.
"You can never be everywhere I am." She points out.
"I'll be in there, and I will find out and do what I have to do for you." As I lightly tap in between her breasts at her heart.
"I think I understand." She says.
"If you love me, you would not hurt me, killing yourself would hurt me." I say to her, before stepping off the curb and hailing a cab for her and take her home.
At her building, Cathy gives me a hug, "I love you and I would never hurt you ever again." With a final kiss, she runs into the elevator to go home in.
But it does not go unnoticed, behind me in the crowd was Randal's brothers who witnessed the hug and goodbye kiss Cathy gave me.
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