chapter 14

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RUBY'S POV

My ears are ringing.

My vision is blurry.

My heart is racing.

I never thought it would end up like this. Pain is all I could feel throughout my whole body.

I lay on the ground, covered in blood, feeling totally defeated as I think about Harry and where he could be right now.

If he's even still alive.

I'll never see him again. I'll never see those beautiful perfect green eyes, his perfectly shaped lips. I'll never feel his hands on my skin. I'll never hear his soft voice murmuring in my ear. Ever again.

A single tear rolls down the side of my face as I stare up at the night sky. Were the stars always so bright? Always so beautiful? Free?

I can't give up. I need to find him.

He's waiting for me, I can feel it.

I sit up, then slowly stand. I look down at the lifeless body in front of me.

Prick.

I pick up my gun and hold it by my side and I start to walk. No idea where I'm headed.

What if that man was telling the truth? When he said that he killed Harry.

No. Impossible. Harry can't be dead.

I walk down the dark, empty street. The only sound is the dragging of my heels on the ground.

I then turn on the next street, and see the alleyway I once ran through, thinking he was behind me.

I step in the narrow area.

I see a body laying lifeless at the other end.

I slowly walk, my heels clicking and echoing.

I'm now standing right in front of his body. Back to me. I nudge him on the back with my foot, to see if he's really dead. He doesn't move, confirming to me that he is very much dead.

I'm numb. I can't feel anything anymore. My legs, my arms, nothing. I'm completely numb.

"Ruby!"

Now I'm hallucinating. Hearing voices.

"Ruby!"

There it is again. I decide to follow the voice, stepping over his dead body. I am now at the end of the alley, not knowing which way the voice came from. Left or right?

"Ruby!"

Left. It came from the left.

I start walking, slowly, in the middle of the road, gun clenched by my side.

Now, even my eyes are playing trick on me. I'm seeing a figure ahead of me. Running my way.

"Harry?" I murmur under my breath, squinting my teary eyes.

"Harry!" I shout this time.

I start to feel my heart beat again.

It's him. Running to me. I start running too.

"Ruby, oh my god. Thank god!" He screams, only a few meters from me now.

Seconds later, our body's are crashing together, my legs are giving out, making me crash to the ground and him following.

"Harry? Oh my god" I cry into his neck while he hugs me tightly against him.

"Ruby, I'm right here. I'm right here, m'not going anywhere" her murmurs into my hair.

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