Chara's Story

Chapter 9: Wish You Were Here

Chara's POV

It was finally time for bed, I was tucked in by mom and kissed on the forehead by dad. The same thing went for Asriel, once they walked out and shut the door we turned to each other and smiled. "Do you like it here sis?" I smiled, WAIT! SISTER?! That word rang in my head over and over again. He called me sis... I haven't been called that since Emmalyn...loved me. "Of course! Month older brother." He giggled and I did too, I was glad to have a family who took care of me, but something didn't feel right. Then I remembered! I took the pictures out of my shirt pocket and stared at them. I sighed as I saw who was in them... Mack. "What's wrong Chara?" Asriel asked, breaking my thoughts in the silence. "Oh! It's nothing.. I just miss Mack." I whispered, hoping he would drop it so I could be alone to look at the pictures. He did.

Once Asriel feel asleep I started to look through the photos I took with Mack's camera only a few days before all of this happened. The first one was us inside a tent taking a selfie, we both looked so happy like nothing was wrong. The next picture was of me, I was in his shop smiling at a necklace he bought me from another merchant. I rubbed my finger over that necklace on my neck. The third picture was us hugging, he had just patched me up from when my dad beat me up and I was crying in his shoulder. Tears started to well up in my eyes, making my vision blurry so I wiped at my eyes untilI could see. The last one was of us laying in the grass looking at each other smiling and laughing. I saw a weird squiggle on the back of the picture and turned it over to see Mack's writing!

       Chara,
You are the best friend I could ever have, you helped me
when I was in need of guidance. I hope what I have done
To help you so far has been great times for you.
Thank you for helping me and making great  memories
with me! I hope we can make more in the near future!
Please don't leave me for another person, more likely
another merchant. Haha, I know you would never do that.
Love, I do love you! Mack (your best friend)

I just layed their, stunned. He loved me! But, he never told me. I started to sob, uncontrollably.  I stared at the picture that he wrote on, wishing that he could just jump out of the picture and hold me, only to whisper in my ear everything is ok... Then I remembered about his old girlfriend who died 2 years ago, and that he wrote this only 4 days ago! He obviously still loved her as soon as he met her again in heaven. That only made me cry more, I slammed my head into my pillow thinking of what would've happened if we started dating or even married each other. He still loves that ugly girl! I was always there and she died 2 years ago! I growled and got up off the bed, I slowly opened the door. I didn't wake up anyone and I sprinted into the bathroom. I found it. It was a razor! I grabbed it and pointed it towards my arm and slowly brought it closer to my arm.