The Triangle

Chapter 23: Let It End

"No Janet wait. Janet, please listen to me. No-no-no. Janet, you are also a witch. You are as powerful as Cassandra. Aren't you? Use your powers and stop her. Janet please... stop" I was shouting and shouting and shouting but she didn't listen a single word.

Why is she obeying her? Why isn't she stopping her? What on the earth is happening? I was speaking in my mind.

She took the dagger from her and looked at me and said, "I am really sorry Jeremy. Please take care of everyone I love" she said and put the tip of the dagger to her chest. Slowly and brutally it started piercing her soft skin and the red liquid started coming out from it.

I was shouting and screaming and crying and tried a million times to get out of the circle of fire but I couldn't. I felt helpless and pathetic because I knew the pain of the cruelty of a dagger. I had gone through the same pain as her. I felt like it was piercing my own skin.

Everyone present there was shocked and crying, me, professor and Alice, Everyone.

I heard Cassandra chanting something and as she started, my sister started feeling some kind of pain. She started crying loudly and soon her cry turned into a horrible scream and she fell on her knees. Then the fire circle bounding her disappeared.

"Aliceeee" I shouted, though she couldn't hear or see me, then Cassandra said, "she is unlinked now" and I didn't understand what she meant. I looked at Janet who was now crawling on the ground and blood was oozing from her brutally torn skin.

Cassandra started laughing like a maniac and slowly bent down to meet Janet's face and said, "I am sorry Janet, I won."

Janet smiled weakly and said, "Yo...u.. you lo...lo..s..t.." and slowly closed her eyes and then all of a sudden, the atmosphere started getting stormy and clouds started roaring. Soon the heavy rain started and all the fire circles got extinguished.

Cassandra was a little taken aback by this.

Alice got up from the ground and shouted, "you lost it Cassandra. You lost everything. My friend didn't give her soul to you. She gave it to the universe. My friend didn't sacrifice herself for you. She did it for my brother."

She did it for my brother. These words started hammering in my mind and I collapsed on the ground feeling miserable and wretched. I felt like I killed her, I killed my love, my Janet.

"J..ja...n..et.." I whispered and started feeling numb and then I felt something pulling me somewhere. I felt something dragging me slowly. At the very same moment, a bright light emerged in front of us and engulfed Cassandra. It started burning her and she screamed in pain.

I tried to keep myself on the ground to avoid being dragged but I was too weak to do so. I was too weak to handle the situation, too weak to handle myself, too weak to handle the shock of my beloved's death. So, I let go. Whatever was happening to me, I let it happen because I didn't have the energy anymore, didn't have the courage to stop or do anything anymore.

Everything has stopped. My world has stopped. My Janet is dead. Everything is just end. I spoke in my mind and all I could see was Cassandra's burning body before everything went black.

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I opened my eyes and I could only see the darkness. It was pitch black. I started feeling suffocated and coughing as I realized I was inside some kind of box. I was having trouble breathing so I started thumping everywhere loudly, "O...open it...please....he...help...op...open...it" I was choking and struggling for help.

I saw a dim light coming inside and realised that someone is trying to open the so-called box. When the cold air hit my face I got up hastily and move out of that box. I tried to run but after moving a few steps I stumbled and fell on the ground.

Jeremy!

I heard a voice and turned my head and saw Alice kneeling on the ground beside a large rectangular box. It didn't take me long to realize that I was inside the coffin only seconds earlier.

Alice ran towards me and whispered, "Jeremy?"

I was shocked and thought how could she see me? "Alice... you can....see...me?" I asked her.

She nodded yes and I asked her, "but how?"

She kept silent and her eyes got teary.

She can see me! Does it mean that I am.... I spoke in my mind and moved slowly towards the coffin and saw that it was empty.

I then approached Alice and asked, "am I... am I a...alive?"

She said, "yes" and hugged me. I hugged her too and we both started crying.

We broke the hug and she said with teary eyes, "I missed you so much"

I cupped her face and said, "I missed you too sister."

"Hey don't cry. I am here now, ok?" I said and she smiled weakly and then I asked, "Alice, how does it happened? I mean I am here all alive! Can you please tell me everything what had happened?"

She asked timidly, "you don't remember anything?"

I paused for a moment and then started to remember but everything was hazy. I couldn't able to remember anything clearly. All I could remember was...... Cassandra.....fire circles..... Janet..... Janet stabbed..... Cassandra burning..... I...I..... what happened to me? Wait! Janet stabbed herself.... what happened to her? Though I couldn't able to remember anything clearly but I remembered the scene when Janet stabbed herself. I remembered it very very clearly and I got frozen for a moment.

"Where is she? Where is Janet?" I asked Alice and she got terrified of my question. She was about to say something but before that.......

"Jeremy" someone called me.

I turned and my eyes got widened after seeing that person.