Endless Night

Rude Interruption

AN: Okay! I am so sorry for the long wait! I started school! I will try to update as often as possible, but I can't promise anything!

Sophia's POV:

I can't believe this is happening to me! Would it be rude to ask about his death? I debate this for a minute. "How did you guys die?" Wait! I didn't mean to ask that! I hear a thud and see Breaking Dawn on the floor. I pick it up and hug it to my chest. I can't take the question back now so I wait for the answer. I expect him to be mad. "It was during the American Revolution. I was about to turn sixteen. My father was a very important ally to the American Army. He secretly spied on the British and gave the information he gathered to the Patriots. One night, they spotted him spying on them. He ran away, but they followed him here. We were caught off guard because my dad told us he wasn't followed. The soldiers came barging into the room at that point. We all ran downstairs to the small closet under the stairs. They looked around for what felt like forever before opening the closet door and pulling us out. They beheaded my dad right in front of my mom and I. She held me back so I wouldn't attack the soldiers. The soldiers noticed and stabbed me before I could get out of my mom's grasp." I didn't expect him to be so open with his past. I can see everything so vividly as he explains how he died. I'm snapped into the present by arms around me. Wait! I'm crying? William leads me into the kitchen and gets me a glass of water. "I want to hear the rest. Please keep going." He raises one eyebrow at me as if he knows he's giving me mental images that I should never have to see. Finally, he sits down and I sit in front of him.

"I lied on the floor and watched as they raped my mom. I tried to get up to stop them, but I couldn't. I was too weak. I watched one of the soldiers nod to the one on my mom and he pulled out a knife. Her screams stopped and I knew she was dead. The darkness consumed me at that point. The next thing I remember is waking up and wondering if it was a dream. I got up and looked for my parents. I found them in the kitchen. I asked them about our deaths and they looked at me like I was crazy. None of us wanted to believe we were ghosts. The next day, my mom came home crying and collapsed on the floor. She'd gone shopping and seen her friends. When they hadn't noticed her she tried to touch them. Her hand went through the woman's shoulder and the woman jumped a bit. When she turned around she looked right at my mom. Then she walked away. I didn't want to believe her. I ran to my aunt and uncle's house and found them sobbing over our deaths." I immediately start to visualize what William is saying and hold back my reactions. It's not easy, but I succeed until he mentions that he went to his relatives to find out the truth. I need to stop him from talking. I hug him without thinking and by some miracle it actually works. "I don't want to hear the rest." I hear him chuckle. "You could handle hearing about our deaths, but you couldn't handle hearing about the pain we went through when we discovered we were ghosts?" I think about this for a second. I couldn't handle any of it, but the worst part was hearing about the aftermath. They never got to say goodbye to their family. I think of Betsy as I shake my head. "No. I can't."

We pull away and I look into his eyes. He smiles and brushes a piece of hair out of my face. His hand lingers and he starts to lean in. "William Turner, stop right there!" I stand up straight and move away from William as I spot a man and a woman. William walks over to them. "I can explain." I run out of the house with William begging me to stay. I run to the park as fast as I can. I feel my lungs burning, but that only makes me run faster. As I enter the park I relax and walk to the swings. I love little kids. I used to babysit for a family in North Carolina. I sit down on a vacant swing and push myself until I'm soaring over the ground below me. I stop swinging and realize I'm still restless. I notice a track around the park and run a few laps. I catch myself thinking about my almost kiss and try to shut down my thoughts. They won't stay quiet and pretty soon I'm dominated by them. Why don't William's parents want us to kiss? Would I get hurt or something? A loud ringing breaks my thoughts and it takes me a minute to realize it's my phone. I stop running and pull it out of my pocket. I look at the caller ID and sigh. "Sarah, now is not the time." She stays silent for a minute. "Okay. Well, then I guess you don't care that I have a boyfriend! Andrew finally asked me out!"