Waiting

『Falling』

Hayner, Pence, and Olette chase each other to the clock tower, [Name] trudging along.
"C'mon, [Name]!" Olette calls. "Hurry!"
Said girl scowls, speeding up nonetheless. "Calm down. Jeez. It's not the end of the world..."
Olette rolls her eyes. "Just come!"
[Name] sighs dramatically and jogs over to her friends. "Want some ice cream?"
"Sure!" they cheer and she goes to buy sea salt ice cream.

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The four sit on top of the clock tower, Hayner and Pence shoving each other playfully. Olette warns them jokingly, "Don't push each other off!"
[Name], who had been licking her ice cream quietly, suddenly flinches. Off the clock tower...?
"Hey, you okay?" Pence asks. Everyone stares at the girl and she laughs nervously.
"Um, yeah. I-I'm fine..." she stammers. "I-It's nothing..." She swallows down a lump in her throat. Off the clock tower...
Hayner shrugs. "Okay then..."
"If you keep spacing out, you might fall off," Pence jokes.
"Uh-huh...I get it," [Name] replies dryly. "Don't freaking jinx it."
The three exchange looks. "Um...okay."
She nibbles on her ice cream, eyebrows furrowing. Off the clock tower...
She sighs and gets up to stretch.
"What, ready to leave, [Name]?" Olette jokes and elbows her in the side.
Her eyes widen as she loses her footing, stumbles. . .
And falls.
"[Name]!" the three scream, panic filling their voices.
She fails to reach the ledge of the clock tower and grab onto it. Her ice cream stick flies out of her hand and hits the cobblestone ground, making a little thud sound that somehow echoes.
"Get to the fucking bottom!" Hayner yells and basically pushes Pence and Olette out of the way as he bounds down the clock tower.
Why...why does this seem so familiar? [Name] wonders, her eyes beginning to close.
She is met with a short vision and can only make out a few things:
"Rー" three voices echo a name, but [Name] can only hear the R sound. That's his name.
And then she sees him falling off the clock tower. The blond is about to hit the groundーhe's about to dieーbut there's a disturbance in the air.
He's back on the clock tower again and his friendsーPence, Hayner, Oletteーdon't know that he just fell off the tower, even though they witnessed it. The "screen" makes a crackling sort of sound, like that of a television that has lost its connection.
Everything blackens and [Name] thinks to herself, I don't want to dieーnot until I remember him.

Σ(￣。￣ﾉ)ﾉ

"[Name]...[Name]..." The voice cracks, sounding like it is close to tears. "C-Come on..."
"Oh, my God..." A boy cusses under his breath, trying to steady his heartbeat.
"This is all my fault," a girl sobs. "Why did I have to do that? Why did she have to lose her balance?"
A hand touches her neck. "I-I can feel her pulse. It's faint, but it's there."
H-Hayner...?
"A fall like that and she's still alive?" This voice sounds so relieved. "Thank God..."
P-Pence...?
"I am so sorry, [Name]! Please, be okay..." This voice is a girl's.
Olette...?
The sounds are getting louder and her head is pounding. "[Name]?! She's coming to! Guys, give her some space!"
[Name] opens her eyes slowly, the sunlight causing her to blink rapidly. "W-What?"
"You're okay," Olette sighs, relief flooding her voice and tears in her eyes.
"Oh, my God..." Pence keeps muttering to himself. "She's okay...I'm so glad..."
"[Name]...are you hurt anywhere?" Hayner asks, worry in his voice and etched on his face.
She laughs, though it comes out more like a croak. "Why...Why would I be?"
"You fell off the clock tower, [Name]..." Pence whispers loud enough for her to hear.
The girl groans and Hayner says quickly, "Let's get you home." He kneels down on one knee and Olette and Pence help place [Name] on his back. He gets up and walks slowly, trying not to worsen whatever she may feel.
"You'll be all right, [Name]..." Hayner mumbles, trying to reassure himself more than her. "Don't worry."
[Name] has her eyes squeezed shut and she's half asleep.
But one thought keeps repeating in her head:
The same spot, the same people...I was fallingーjust like him. And both of us almost died...
...How did we survive?

And in her mind, it continues. . .
It keeps replaying in her headーshe's falling.
They are falling.

(=ﾟωﾟ)ﾉ

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