They never expected this to happen, I knew something bad was coming because of what my sister (a psychic) said. She's lucky. She stayed home. It all started that one day, my eighteenth birthday aka the worst day of my life.
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Josh's POV That night I walked away to go after Alex and apologize but about half way, I realized that I don't have to apologize for anything. I resent her because it was her fault.
But you love her Josh
As much as I want to hold her in my arms so we can hug and make up, I can't because... Because everything just reminds me of the boat.
Rain starts coming down so I start walking back to camp, as I turn around a pair of hands grab me and put something over my mouth. Oh no, it's chloroform.
2 days later...
"Who are you and why are you doing this?!" I shout as the guy comes toward me again, he points a gun at me and I spit at him
"Just shoot me!" I shout and he smirks
"As you wish" he says and I close my eyes and just hear the noise of the trigger. I open my eyes and only see him laughing
"You didn't think I was going to let you die right? I can't let you die. Yet. For now, you can just sit here and ponder about Amy"
"How do you know Amy?!" He doesn't respond, instead he just chuckles and fades back into the darkness.
Amy is- was my girlfriend. I fell in love with her in eighth grade and eventually I asked her out, this year would have been our four year anniversary. I loved her so much, I loved the way that her eyes sparkled whenever the light hit them, I love the way that she was so kind and loving towards everyone, and I especially loved the way that she cared for me.
We had a plan that after graduation, we would buy a house and go to community college together, maybe get a dog. And then within a couple of years, I'd ask her to marry me and we would live happily ever after.
Life had different plans.
"I HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR! JUST KILL ME!" I scream as images of Amy and I flash through my mind. "Just kill me" I say in between tears
Alex's POV I woke up and saw Jake and Max talking and it looks like they are in an intense conversation, I look around and see Ansley, once again, picking at her nails.
I get up and dust myself off, shaking all of the sand off. "Guys, it's been three days since Josh went missing-"
"He didn't go missing, he just left, frankly I don't blame him" Ansley says in a snotty tone. We hear a gunshot and I go running into the woods.
"JOSH! JOSH! J-"
"Alex! Stay here, Ansley and I will search for him. If anything happens, I love you" Jake says while kissing me and before I can process what is going on, they are gone.
I sit on a rock and shake my leg. "Lex, you need to cal-"
"Don't tell me to calm down. My best friend is out there and I can feel that something bad is happening!" I snap and he puts his hands up in surrender.
After what felt like hours, Ansley and Jake come back with blank expressions on their faces. I jump up and ask "did you find anything?" Ansley bows her head down
"Alex... He-"
"No... JOSH!" I shout while running into the woods and I throw up at the sight. He was shot and hung from a tree, looks like Jake cut him down.
I collapse on my knees and just start crying.
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"No... Y-you didn't deserve this" I cry while stroking his hair. "Josh please come back to me. I lied, I don't hate you, your my best friend! I can't live without you!" I cry over his body basically going into a fit.
"Maybe we should tell her-"
"It's not the time" Max shakes his head and I look up at the both of them.
"Tell me what?" I ask and Max shakes his head. Jake steps up and tells me.
"Alex... Someone sabotaged the boat and caused it to sink... We think that they are here-" I cut him off by pinning him against a tree
"Why didn't you tell me! We could have avoided this! He was my best friend and my last words to him were that I hated him and wanted him to go to hell! Why would you hide this from me" I feel like I am having another meltdown. I try to hit him but I am too weak from crying. Instead I just sink to my knees and cry over his body.
"Lex, we have to burry the body-"
"No!"
"He's gonna decompose if we don't" Max says and I nod and go running to my spot.
I hear footsteps walking onto the dock and I can already tell it's Jake so I just start venting. "I can't take this anymore. Someone sunk the ship that killed everyone I loved! And now he killed two more people that I love! I'm sick and tired of losing people!"
"I know how you feel. You feel like it's all your fault and like you are the worst person on earth right now, but your not. And I'm gonna keep telling you this until you believe it. Everything happens for a reason and now with all of this happening, you are trying to stay strong and your trying to help everyone while trying not to break down, but it's okay to let those feelings out. It's okay to feel hurt or angry or sad, it only means that your human and we need our humanity to keep us sane" he says while putting his arm around me and I sigh, he starts stroking my hair as if telling me to let it all out so I do.
"He d-didn't deserve to die. I said that I wanted him to go to hell because I hated him. I don't hate him, I love him, he was my best friend and I never got to tell him how much he meant to me"
"What is your favorite memory of him?"
"I guess it would have to be when I first met him. We were about four maybe five and our moms worked together on a fashion show, anyways I saw him so I skipped over to him with my little pigtails and pink ribbons in my hair with a big smile. Unfortunately I interrupted him from coloring so he was grumpy, but I didn't really seem to care. Once he finally put away the book, he introduced himself and said that one of my ribbons fell out so he retied it for me. The rest of that night we talked and laughed about the stupid things that little kids talk about and eventually our moms called us on stage to take a bow. That by far has to be my greatest memory" I say with a chuckle
"My favorite memory would have to be at your thirteenth birthday party when you two sang a karaoke duet"
"Yeah, that too. I have a question though, what happened last year at my birthday party?" I ask and he starts chuckling. "What did I do? Tell me!"
"I think it's best if you don't know for now"
"Tell me!"
"Nope" he makes the motion that his lips are sealed and I huff in frustration. That's when I realize that he just made me slay my inner demons, he replaced these bad memories happening now with good ones of the past and I actually feel much better.
