What if... I suddenly died?

Chapter 26

  So... The ending was still the same.

  No matter how Anson tried to warn her, she still wouldn't change her mind.

  That's because there was a heavy reason why she wouldn't ever decline his offer into dying. She was about to leave the country and would never be coming back sooner or later. That feeling sucks, especially when she can never meet her friends back again shortly. She had to go and meet her friends and say goodbye to them before it was too late. She wanted her last farewell, and since Anson couldn't give her a specific killer, she wouldn't listen.

  The answer he made up wasn't giving Anson more chances of saving Allie's life. She never thought her friends would thrash her, let alone kill her. Friends never backstab one another, let alone stab others in reality. That was the opposite thing, which was sky far. She would never trust him now, and the trust between them is gone.

  He sighed. What a waste of time of saving the girl's life and then with the same ending.

  Anson was just mad; he couldn't save her. Like how he had imagined, he could save her like a superhero.

  It was even harder than how I could do that myself. Just by saying was a thing tough enough to be achieved.

  But he knows there's nothing he could do with her. That was her choice, not his. If she wanted to die, he'd let her. It wasn't like she was his daughter or so; she had the right to do that.

  The screen aside from the front of the class was still playing the news of yesterday's night. Everyone at school was busy, catching news they had never done in real life, like following a movie. It was tragic, though. At last, when everyone was about to think the culprit was finally landed in the hands of whether they should be jailed, they didn't. They were not sentenced for the consequences of killing Allie, as there was still no key proof. No one knows if that was another trick for letting the culprits' guards down.

  Seeing the two girls walking inside the room freely made the whole room fall into silence. They were marching into the room, acting as if nothing had happened. But from their eyes, their looks, Anson know something wasn't going quite right. They were looking miserably depressed as they entered the room. Somehow, they showed they were the culprits from their worried expressions but somehow got off scot-free.

  And now, Allie's fate still wasn't been changed. She was on the verge of dying, and when he thought he was supposed to survive, she chose to die.

  'Who would have chosen to die?' He often asked himself, 'when life was so limited... And what to do when life was so limited? There was only a day left for Allie right now if she had made up her mind...' 

  He remembered the thing she had said to him just before he had left her house. 

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  "Originally, I hate my life. It was so unreal," Allie said to him honestly, "why am I here? When I don't belong here?"

  She sighs. Anson remained silent as they walked down the road. 

  "Will you change your thoughts, Allie?"

  "I told you I will protect myself," Allie replied, touching his face.

  "Just can't... leave for one night?"

  "This is the last chance I would be here, time is limited," she answered softly, "and what about death? I didn't care about that honestly."

  Anson didn't reply again. When others might be frightened, Allie seems to be calm after hearing that. The first second when she knew about her death, she was scared. She couldn't believe her fate, and she wished to change that. But now, as she was just meters away from home, her fright changes into depression. She was cool and didn't show a hint about how she was feeling back then like it didn't matter how her fate was after all. It was nothing. From her pale face, it seems she accepted.