Silent Angels Whisper * Part III: Tridtsat Minut (Thirty Minutes) - Chapter 12

Everything seemed to happen so fast and so slow at the same time. My heart fell to my stomach when Lune and I spun around only to see Tod and the girls on the other side of the beach, miles away. But they weren’t alone. They were surrounded by those robot men we had never been able to beat almost a year ago.

 

                Tod was fighting with all of his strength but it was no use, there were hundreds of them. Everything inside of me seemed to freeze and for a while it seemed like I couldn’t move. A helicopter came and flew overhead, ready to take the girls and Tod back to the science lab.

 

“No!” I screamed, not even realizing what I was doing.

                My mind shut down and I could hardly breathe, but I took off running toward their area at full speed anyway. I remember screaming ‘no’ over and over again, no believing that something horrible could truly happen at such a perfect moment. Tears streamed down my face and blurred my vision as I ran and a huge lump choked me until I was practically suffocating.

 

                Suddenly Lune’s hands grabbed my waist and pulled me back, trying to stop me from running any further. I fought him and tried to pull off his arms but it was no use, Lune was strong. I screamed at Tod and the girls as Lune struggled to keep me away from the danger.

 

“No! Let me go! I have to save them! No! Please!” I cried over and over, trying so hard to reach them

 

                As the struggle continued between Lune and me they loaded the tied up bodies of the girl and Tod, who were fighting frantically to save themselves. One of the robots noticed two were missing and began to look around. Lune put his hand over my mouth and pulled me onto the warm sand behind a broken log. I struggled for a second, until a voice sounded.

 

“Shhh, Angel, I’ll never let you go.” whispered Lune into my ear

 

                I froze as something began to come back, but I couldn’t quite reach the thought. I was still suffocating on my own tears and my body felt numb from the thought of losing the people so important to me. My brain whirled with new thoughts as I tried to short through everything, but after a second I realized I couldn’t do it. Too much had happened and my brain just shut down.

 

                So I did what I always did when I could no longer use common logic, I began to fight Lune again. I didn’t have a plan, a strategy, or anything other than running up there and screaming at the robots to give me my ‘family’ back, but I wasn’t thinking straight. Lune struggled to hold me in the sand and began to whisper to me to try and calm me down.

 

“’I’m a star, you’re a star, someone was told to extinguish us.’” Lune whispered, still struggling to hold me down.

 

“’Voices will crack, and ice will break, and I’m lost without the key.’” I whispered after stopping my struggling. I was only going to say the important parts of the song. The rest didn’t matter.

 

“’And my bed is my grave, and it’s time to switch off, and they’ve almost caught us.’” Lune continued for me, also skipping to the important parts.

 

“’Smile, release, cover the mirror, rip apart and say ‘I’m dead, you’re dead.’” I choked out through tears

 

“’Close yourself off and lie there alone, become no one, and my hands won’t shake.” Lune whispered, still holding me in the sand

 

“’And don’t ever ask, I could never forgive you.” I continued

 

“How did we ever get this far? It shouldn’t have to be this hard. And for the first time in my life, I’m flying. Are we in love to we deserve? To bear the shame of this whole world? And like the night we camouflage, denial.” Lune whispered, speaking the second verse to the song.

 

                We layed there for hours just to be sure, Lune still holding me as if I would escape while I thought of those words. ‘Are we in love, do we deserve, to bear the shame of this whole world?’

 

                Just as I was about to drift off to sleep the wind carried a paper over to where we were lying in the cool sand. I reached over and grabbed it when Lune propped himself up on his elbow. I took a shaky breath and read it out loud.

 

“’You have thirty minutes.’”