love, death, betrayal

Chapter 1

Right now my whole life was complete; he was holding me tight in his tender loving arms. There were no problems, I was safe, I was…dreaming?

I opened my eyes and sighed, I reached over hoping to find him next to me but all I could feel was the cold untouched sheet where he should lie.  I rolled over to find that the full moon still peeked through my window casting an empty shadow where he should be lying. I felt alone again, my heart ached with desire and need. I know I need to go back to sleep but I couldn’t, so I got up and wandered downstairs to the kitchen, dragging my tired feet on the soft carpet. When I got to the kitchen my eyes found the phone, another pang of loneliness shot through my body and I shivered, “I need to call him.” I breathed; I walked over to the phone and place a hand on it. Then, replaying last night’s fight in my head I decided against it.  Sighing I walked away without looking back.

After a long sleepless night it seemed like morning came without warning. The bright blinding sun peaked in through my window, waking me automatically. I stood up with tired feet and made my way to the bathroom. I splashed cold water on my face hoping it would wake me up some. When I looked at my reflection in the mirror it showed traces of loss and exhaustion. I sighed frustrated leaving my grieving reflection behind. When I got back to my room I flopped back down on my bed too tired to get ready for the long day ahead of me. I finally gave in and got dressed. When I was ready I started to make my way to school. As I was walking my best friend Carly drove up. “Hey Sky, did you see the news this morning?” She demanded. “Since when do you watch the news?”

“I don’t. My mom was. But that’s not the point!” I stopped and turned toward her. “Ok Car ill humor you, what’s up?” I started to get a bad feeling about this, Carly never watches the news, usually our daily morning conversation is about ‘The Bachelor’ or whatever show was on the night before. “It’s about Cole, something happen, he was rushed to the hospital last night… I think it was serious Sky.” At that moment the whole world stopped, everything around me slowed. Suddenly everything went black, when the light started to come back I found myself looking up at Carly’s’ frowning face. “Sky? What happen?” My vision became clearer and so did the events of what happen before I passed out. “You don’t look too good”

“Car, you have to take me to him!” I was on the verge of hysteria

“Of course I will, get in.” I got in the passenger seat of Carly’s car and we drove to the Cooper Medical Center. When we got to the front desk the lady lazily gave us Cole’s room number and we hurried down the dingy halls until we got there. His mom looked up at me with dried tear streaks; this cannot be a good I thought to myself. On the bed next to her lays a Cole I don’t recognize. He looks unfamiliar with wires coming from his arms and bruises covering his body. This was not my Cole. A tear managed to escape for the first time since I got this awful news today. “What…happen?” I said barely getting the words out, she must of heard me because she said, “He was in a car accident…didn’t you watch the news?” What, did the whole world watch the news today but me? “No, Carly just told me.” The doctor came in suddenly demanding we get out of her way. When she was done she beckoned Miss Ross to follow her to the hallway.

As they were gone I walked up to Cole’s bed and looked at his broken body. A tear leaked out onto his arm and many more followed. I felt Carly’s arms snake around my body in a failed attempted to comfort me; right now I was broken too. Finally Miss Ross came back in followed by the doctor. A new set of tears have formed in her eyes. “Skylar, honey, he’s gone... The doctor lost his heartbeat he was killed in the accident. There is nothing else we can do for him… he’s gone.” I think she started crying but I couldn’t tell because the sound was covered up my own sobs and my last words to him screaming at me in my head, ‘I never want to see you again!’ right now I hated myself because I got what I asked for, I will never see him again.  I felt Carly trying to comfort me again and this time it worked.