Deception

Chapter 17

Hours drift by but we both don't take any notice of them, the sun beats down on both of us, burning our pale skin, but we don't care. All we care about is lying here, together. Carl turns over and starts to play with my hair. His fingers gingerly tangle through the brown locks. I stare at him and smile, God he's so beautiful, the sheriff hat shadows his eyes, so I can't tell if he's looking at me or not. "Carl," I say, he immediately perks up.

"Yes." He drags out the s as if saying it as a question, Instead of an answer.

"Why do you like me?" I pause, thinking about my next sentence, "I mean I have a horrible face, my personality sucks and I look like a troll because of my body shape and my height, so why? What do you see in me?" I was only meant to say the first line but all the other comments come out like word vomit.

He tuts and shakes his head, "your ass, that's why I like you." I frown and Carl sees that I'm genuinely hurt by his comment, he quickly interjects, " I'm kidding, I'm kidding! I like you April Mae Bower because, you are a beautiful human being, your face can turn any guy on, your personality is amazing and your body shape is so hot that it's actually distracting to me right now, please don't ever think that you look horrible, because your really not." His sudden speech overwhelms me and I struggle to form any words.

So I don't.

I snuggle up to Carl and he grabs my hand and squeezes it. Rustling leaves and howling wind is all I hear, and all I focus on. Carl really likes me, for me? Why?

A shape with blond hair stands next to an oak tree that I am looking at, he wears dark denim trousers and a black t shirt, he looks to be around eighteen and he has two gunshot wounds on his body.

Charlie.

I look away quickly, not wanting to look at his face, guilt and grief over come me and I start to sob, Carl looks at me, concern in his face. He sees the tears streaming down my face and hugs me tighter. "April," he starts, I cut him of with a loud whimper. "Hey , April listen to me, what's the matter? Look at me, h- Ap- April please." I can tell he's getting worried about me. I want to reassure by telling him I'm okay.

But I'm not.

I sit up and rock back and forth, my hands covering my ears. I turn around and see that Charlie is still looking at me, I stare at him for a long time and finally let the grief overcome me. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" I scream, this is the first time I have ever looked Charlie in the eyes since he died, all the other times that he's visited me, Ive never looked at him. "WHY ARE YOU HERE?" I shout. Looking closely at Charlie I see his his pupils start to dilate and in his eyes there is no longer any white. Blood starts to pour from his nose and his eyes. Blue veins pulse and they are visible in his forehead, this thing is no longer my brother. Charlie points at Carl and frowns, he starts walking towards him. "NO, NO PLEASE NO!" I scream. Carl grabs hold of my hands that are placed on my ears, he squeezes them.

"April listen to me, what's the matter just tell me okay?" Carl pleads and I can tell that he is genuinely terrified.

I've gone crazy with grief, it's bad enough seeing the ghost of my brother, but this. This is something more.

"He's here." Are the only words that can come out, Carl looks at me in surprise and then speaks, he draws on the back of my hand trying to make me calm down.

"April wh- who's here." I scream again since Charlie has gotten closer, Carl wraps his arms around me and try's to reassure me. But he's not helping, I am completely and utterly terrified of this thing, if I didn't look at Charlie's damn face I bet this wouldn't of happened. I can feel sweat pour down my face but I feel cold and I shiver.

"Charlie, I say slowly, almost in a whisper, "Charlie's here." I see guilt in Carls eyes and I don't understand why, does he feel bad for me?

"If you see Charlie that must be a good thing." He says, I interject.

"No, no i- it's not h- him, I- it isn't h- him." I stutter, I feel the black eyes land on me and I scream even louder then before. Jake comes running out the church he smiles at first but his expression soon fades when he sees me rocking back and forth screaming at the top of my lungs. Jake try's to speak but Carl interrupts him.

"GO AND GET MY DAD!" He screams, "HURRY UP AND GET ANYONE, PLEASE." This is the first time Carl has ever used manners towards Jake. God he must be worried. i start to fall back and Carl grabs me, I no longer see Charlie and relief floods my body. I try and stand but my legs buckle, Carl wraps his arm around my waist and lifts me off the ground.

I start to close my eyes, faint images appear when I try and open them back up. Rick takes me off Carl. Carl screams my name. Judith starts crying, Maggie and Glenn look shocked. I get placed on a sofa, I try to move, but my legs are frozen, in fact my whole body is. My eyes feel heavy and I try my hardest to keep them open, but I lose.

I lose, and I fall into darkness.

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This chapter sucked sorry, lul I think the next one will hopefully turn out good though