Missing Heart

Chapter 31: Kelly

"How long has it been?" I asked. I was really worried about Julie... She's going through so much and I can't understand it...

"About 5 minutes, sounds like she's done now..." Martin replied.

"Man, I feel really bad for your sis Kelly. Poor chicks going through so much!" Shelly said.

"Yeah... she is...".

Martin walked towards the door and opened it. He opened it quickly, clearly not expecting much... but....

"... What...? No... No no no no no... JULIE GOD DAMN IT NO!".

"Huh!? What happened, is she OK!?".

"AAAAAAAH!". Martin screamed in pain similarly to Julie. What the hell happened!? Is Julie OK!?

I dashed to the door and looked inside and... Julie...

Julie was hanging from the ceiling dead...

No... I knew Julie was struggling, but to think she'd... To think she would actually kill herself... Why is history repeating itself? Why is the world doing this to me!? Why has the universe decided to kill my whole family!? I'm alone! I'm fucking alone forever.

"Hey guys, uhh... bad news...". Shelly said. I could hardly hear her over my breath. I had already used all my tears, that was the only reason I wasn't crying.

"What could be worse than this!?".

"Z-zombies...".

"Oh crap, I forgot about those!".

I had been so caught up with my siblings I had forgotten we were even in a zombie apocalypse!

"It's way too big!" Martin exclaimed.

"... That's what she-".

"Now's not the time for fucking jokes Shelly! We have to run!".

I grabbed the bread and ran. I ran following Martin and Shelly and I ran the same way I ran when Shaun was about to die. I risked it all to quickly look behind me to see where the zombies were.

"Huh!? Guys, we can stop running! Look behind you!".

They both stopped and looked behind us. We... weren't in the forest anymore...

"What is this place!?" Shelly yelled.

"I dunno, but what on earth is all this white shit?". Martin asked

"It looks like clouds... Are we in heaven? Did we die?" I asked.

"Hello..." A voice said in the distance. I immediately shot up straight, because from the sound of it, I was meeting God.

"Your thoughts are correct, I am God".

"Ok... Let me get this straight... Within 5 days our families died, there were zombies, Shaun died, Nick died, Julie died" I winced "And now we are meeting God!? This is a complete rollercoaster of a story!" Shelly blurted out. What the hell? What the hell is going on? Why are we meeting God!?

"Yeah. I thought it would be unexpected to just randomly throw in some religion here. When you were wondering if the reason the zombie hadn't rotted to death was because someone was doing on purpose to hurt you, you were completely correct. You are all the main characters of this story, and I am doing this purely to torture you. You can not escape, you are my pawns. You are fictional characters which I have inserted into books and therefore your lives are meaningless. Use this information however you like".

"What? I don't understand what you mean" Shelly asked. She hadn't been there for that interaction.

But who cares about that. What was going on? Why was I meeting God? Was I really just some tiny pawn slave to something high above? Was  I really fake?

"Yes, you are" The voice replied. She read my mind, she was real.

Everyone else could hear her, and she was speaking truth.

Our lives were meaningless, we were just pawns for this apocalypse.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked, softly.

"To entertain. To amuse. To immerse. To interest. To fascinate all the minds of those that read this, and to help myself stay sane. I write stories to stay sane".

But why? Why me? I don't want to be fake! I want to be real! I want to live a normal life, I want Julie and Nick and Mother and Father.... and I want Father's missing heart back... I don't want to be a clown to entertain people I don't even know, I want to be taken seriously! I just want people to see me for who I am...

"Now that you are in a book, you, Kelly Rose, people will understand you. There will be people who take you seriously. You do not have to worry about that anymore".

...Even so, I don't want to be meaningess!

"You can't help that. I can't help that. We all die anyway, so what is the point? Just die already Kelly".

I collapsed to my knees and my hearing completely shut off. I could see... I could just barely see the reactions of Martin and Shelly as they were presumably told all sorts of harsh truths about the meaninglessness of their existence. Suddenly, we were not in the area with clouds any more, and we were falling... falling down from somewhere high. I looked around me to see Martin and Shelly falling too. I looked above and saw a cliff. We were falling down from it. We were going to die, the God had sent us to death because she had grown bored of us, she had lost her use for us now that we knew the truth. I liked living in ignorance, it was nice not knowing everything. I felt no fear, but screamed anyway. Suddenly, my vision went dark, and I couldn't feel anymore.