they both die at the end || ronance au

three

NANCY WHEELER

1:06am

death-cast decided to call me while i'm threatening my ex-girlfriends new girlfriend. i'm pinning her against the wall when my phone starts ringing, cutting me off mid-sentence. everyone around me pauses, hearing the death-cast ringtone that everybody knows from either personal experience, tv shows, or the news. my friends eddie and gareth aren't smiling and laughing anymore. i wait to see if vickie's phone is going to go off too. a minute passes and it's still just mine.

"nance, you gotta pick up." eddie says, taking a quick glance at his own phone to see if he was about to get a call. i sigh and gesture for gareth to come over and keep vickie pinned. he comes over and i move to the side and pick up the phone.

"hi, this is murray from death-cast. is nancy wheeler there?"

"yes, i'm here."

"nancy, i regret to inform you that in the next 24-hours-"

"23-hours. you're calling after one."
i hear murray sigh. "right. i'm so sorry." i roll my eyes at his sarcastic tone. he drones on and on about stuff that i could care less about. he starts to call out my name and i hang up. i'm dying today. maybe, somehow, in some twisted sense, this is all vickie's fault. i walk back over to her as gareth walks away. she tries to run, but i push her back against the wall. 

"if you think that you're 'winning' because i'm dying today, then you are so fucking wrong. barb didn't leave me for you. we loved each other. things got complicated. you just happened to come into the picture. now listen, if i see you again today, i will shoot you. i always have a gun on my thigh. watch yourself."

she gulps and i smile as i let go of her to take her phone. i throw it on the ground and eddie stomps on it. i look at her as she stares at me in fear.

"now go." 

"nance, doesn't she have connections or something?" gareth asks, raising an eyebrow.

"they're a bunch of band kids, what're they gonna do?" i laugh and watch as vickie starts to run. i walk over to our bikes, picking mine up. i hop on and wait for eddie and gareth to get on theirs. we ride back to our place in an uncomfortable silence.