Fatal: Part 3 (The Grand Finale)

Chapter 10

A/N: I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T UPDATE YESTERDAY I'M JUST NOW GETTING WIFI HERE'S CHAPTER 10.

That day with the whole bracelet situation really got McKayla thinking. Recieving the bracelet was the last memory she had of Matthew; and he'd just randomly seen it on the floor and given it to her. It made McKayla wonder what everyone else who was at that shooting's last memory of Matthew was - if they even ahd any at all. It made McKayla wonder who the bracelet originally belonged to before it was given to her...

Chris was at rehearsals today and McKayla was with Sophie. McKayla played with the braclet on her wrist, chewing the inside of her cheek, thinking. Finally, she speaks.

"Who do you think this racelet belonged to before Matthew gave it to me?"

"What?" Sophie asks.

"This bracelet. When Matt gave it to me, he picked it up off the floor and put it on me. It had to have belonged to some other girl and she must have dropped it on the floor that day, right? How else would it have gotten there?" McKayla asks, "Do you think it meant as much to her then as it does to me now? Or was it just a bracelet to her?"

Sophie gives McKayla a sad smile, "There's no way to know, sweetheart."

x

McKayla lay in bed later that day, watching whatever was on TV. She hears the front door open and smiles.

"Kayla!" Chris calls from downstairs.

"Up here!" McKayla calls.

A minute later, Chirs comes upstaris and enters the bedroom. He smiles. He walks over and crawls into bed next to his wife before kissing her.

"Hey, baby." he whispers.

"Hi." McKayla says, "How was rehearsal?"

"Good. I think we're gona do good on this tour as long as A Day To Remember's fans don't rip us to shreds."

"Well just do what you always do: just remind them why they bougth the tickets."

"Fingers crossed it works." Chris says, "What about you? How was your day?"

"Good. I spent most of my day iwht my mom."

There's a pause.

"Chris?" McKayla asks, "Be honest...Do you think it's crazy how important this fucking bracelet is to me? I mean it is just a piece of jewelry..."

"I don't think it's crazy at all. Your brother gave that do you; I can totally understand why it's important to you...Why do you ask?"

"Well, I've just been thinking a lot about that day lately; who the bracelet might have originally belonged to."

Chris shrugs, "I can sure see why you would be curious. Have you ever talked to any of the other victims; or anyone that was in the school when the shooting happened?"

"Not since I moved to Pennsylvania in high school."

"Well, you've been through a lot in your life, Kayla. You should try to find people that understnad what it's like."

"I have tried, Chris. Remember when I tried that cancer support group? It was okay, but it just...wasn't for me, I guess."

"Well I'm not saying you should try to find some rape victim slash abuse survivor slash gun shot survivor slash school shooting victim slash cancer slah...whatever the Hell else you've been through support group; but maybe you can go online and find someone that was at the school that day. I'm sure you could."

McKayla sighs, "Yeah, maybe..."

"Are you gonna be okay when I leave for tour?"

"Yeah."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, honey." She says before kissing his cheek ,"Thank you for being so understanding."

"Of course, baby. that's what I'm here for."

McKayla smiles, then exhales,s "Well I'm gonna go shower." She says before standing and walking off to the bathroom.

A second later, McKayla comes back into the bedroom with a raised eyebrow, "You coming?"

Chris blinks, "Oh." He says before standing.

x

McKayla wakes up in the arms of an already awake Chris. He kisses her temple.

"Morning, beautiful." He whispers.

McKayla snuggles into him more and gives a small hum, "Hmm...I'm gonna miss this."

"I know, baby. I am to; but there's only three tours left. This one, the European tour with Lacuna Coil and Devilment and then the short one with HIM; and then I'm hone with you for two whole months."

"I know. I can't wait." She says before they quickly kiss.

"So what do you want to do with two months together?" Chris asks.

"Well...I mean I have an MRI in October...And then another one in January...but if all goes well with those, then - "

"Let's not talk about cancer right now, okay? I don't wanna talk about that."

"But what if - "

"We have a plan, McKayla. If worse comes to worse, we have a plan. But for now can we at least...pretend everything is normal?"

"Well of course; but we'd be doing just that: pretending. What, do you think I'm not as afraid as you are? I'm the one that actually has the illness, here. Chris, I am terrified that my cancer is going to come back again; but that doesn't mean I can just swept it under the rug and try to pretend everything is normal so that I don't have to be afraid. I can't just pretend like it's not a possibility. I mean for all I know, I could be dead before I even turn thirty."

Chris hugs McKayla, "No no no don't talk like that, baby. Everything is gonna be okay."

"How can you believe that?!"McKayla asks, on the brink of tears.

"Because I have to! It's the only thing that keeps me sane anymore .."

And that was when McKayla and Chris really realized how much they live in fear every day...

A/N: Lame filler but LOTS of foreshadowing. Particularly with Chris' two months off from touring. A LOT is going to happen then and right before the HIM tour and it's going to get CRAAAAAAZY.

GRAMMAR LESSON. Today's lesson, apostrophes! Apostrophes are used either for contractions such as don't or can't, or to show possession. Today I'll be discussing possession. We use apostrophes to show possession like to say "John's shirt" instead of "The shirt that belongs to John". But what if we are showing possession of multiple things? Such as two parents? In that case, we would say, "My parents' house." NOT "My parent's house" or "My parents's house". SAME THING GOES if referring to one person who's name ends in S. So in these fanfictions, if something belongs to Chris, we say "Chris' makeup" NOT "Chris's makeup". We went through this in English at school the other day and I just HAD to put a thing here about it because it was driving me crazy. Thank you.

xoxo, Scissorhands.