Chapter Eight

She dials 911. The ambulance gets her sister from the grass and loads her in the car. She is crying at the whole event. Her mother prevents her from going with her sister to the hospital.

She goes to her room and packs herself a bag. And packs her sister a bag. She knows it’s time to run away. She finishes and heads to the hospital.

She is walking down the cold street.

A car stops by her.

“Hello girl, you shouldn’t be outside right now.” The female voice says.

“I need to get to the hospital to see my sister.”

“Well let me drive you there then.”

The girl hesitates but gets in, “okay.”

“Alright, I’ll take you there now.”

“Thank you.”

“No problem. I really have no place I’m going right now.”

“Okay, but still thank you. God sent you to save me and help me.” The girl says a little pray.

The female laughs, “Well good for him. I’m Kelly by the way.”

“Nice to meet you.”

~…~

I walk around the party, trying to mingle. Jackson walks up to me.

“Hey, John. Long time no see.”

“Yeah, it’s been awhile.”

“Yeah not since Kelly.” Jackson smiles like it is a joke to him and him only.

“True. But that was like a few years ago.”

“Well thanks for the invite; I’m glad you remembered me after all these years.”

 

I remember Kelly and the last time I saw her.

I walked into the bedroom and I saw tiny pools of blood that leaded to the bathroom. Next to the closed door is a bloody knife. I quickly ran and pushed open the door.

There laid Kelly in the tub filled with crimson water of her own making.  I checked to see if she is alive. She was barely clinging to life. I pulled her out of the tub as my right foot crushes an empty bottle of my old sleeping pills. I gently placed her on the cold bathroom floor. She laid there barely clothed body stained with her blood from her wrist wounds. I started CPR and I got her to breathe once again. I go to the medicine cabinet and got out long white cloth bandages. I proceeded to seal up her wrist wounds.

I next picked her up enough to lean her head against the cold white toilet seat. I then put my finger down her mouth to force back up the pills. After three rounds of this, all the pills seemed to have exited her body.

I cleaned up her face and saw that her wrists have stopped bleeding.

My restless body crashes against bathroom wall. Soon thereafter, Kelly awaken confused and cold blinded by the bathroom ceiling light. She said softly unaware of me sitting there.

“Where am I?”

I spoke.

“Your house.”

She sat up shocked to have heard my voice.

We looked deeply into each other’s eyes, you can see the ashamed and me bringing glad she is okay. She broke the stare and looked at her wrapped wrist.

She can’t look at me again, but speaks, “You must think I’m an idiot.”

“I don’t, Kelly.”

“Don’t lie to me. Don’t ever lie to me again. You said you loved me but you couldn’t be with me.”

“I never lied to you because I never told you my feelings towards you.” I move over next to her, “And you should hate me for what I have done to you, you deserved better than this, better than me.”

“But I want you,” she looks at me, “what happened to us? I know you had a horrible past and I understand those issues. But the night you came to my place and we made love, you left me, I was really hurt after. You never called, and you avoided me. Why?”

“To be honest, I was scared. Scared, to let someone into my life again. Scared, that in the end I will hurt you.  And mostly scared I couldn’t love as much as I could love Rose.”

“But sadly she is gone. I wish she didn’t but that’s fate. I know deep down inside my heart that you can’t ever love me as much but I want you to love me in some way. And you only can hurt me when I can’t be with you. Do you love me?”

“I do. I just can’t. It’s too soon.”

She leaned up and pressed her lips against mine, “No its not. Don’t punish me for her being dead. She didn’t love you; she died because she hated you.”

I got up and left.

That was the last time I saw her.