I start to get up and apologize to Will when I hear the doorbell ring.
Great. Another surprise. Just what I needed.
It's Kate at the door, she's just standing there and soaked through the bone from the rain.
"Kate? What are you doing-" I stammer. "You should be at the hospital recovering from the bullet wound."
She stares at me like she can't see anything, but everything all at once.
"Kate?" Nothing. Not a single noise. No laugh. No nothing.
She walks in and drops her stuff off on the floor of our room. She sits on the edge of the bed and begins to cry.
Slowly, the tears fall from her face.
"Hey Kate," I asked like a moron, "What seems to be wrong?" She shakes her head and wipes the tears,from her face. She doesn't get up off the bed, so I don't know what to do. She looks at me with her light blue eyes that have the thousand mile stare in them.
"Kate. What happened?"
She takes a deep breath before she starts. "Ryan. I'm fine. I just needed to get away."
"But why? That's the part I don't understand."
"Ryan. The 'so-called' hospital you called, is a mental hospital. So I was just another mental case. They healed me, yeah. But after that…" And like that she trails off into tears.
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Wearing the Mask.
Short StoryIt's been a year since "Fear the Mask." And everything has changed. People come and go. Words and fights have gone. But the most important, we lived as a family. And no one can take that away from us. When Ryan's job just gets harder and harder to k...
