The Sphere

Chapter 7

"No!" Billy screamed and ran to the edge of the bridge looking over. The tears filling up in his eyes came streaming down like waterfalls. He looked over sobbing loudly then turned to Kelly who had turned around with her arms crossed. "How could you?!" Billy screamed again and darted at Kelly. He ran to the front of Kelly and began flailing his arms trying to hit her but she caught his wrists and held them.

She was boiling with anger. Billy's crying and childlike flailing didn't help. But as she looked down at him and saw the hurt that was overcoming him, she felt a quick rush of guilt come over her. She glanced back at the edge of the bridge where she had just kicked John off.

John.

As she thought about what she had just done and his name repeated in her head she thought about him. He was a boy that was almost madly in love with her. They were close since the sixth grade, he always stuck around her. Always put up with her scares and almost never complained to her. And she killed him. She kicked him into a pit of bubbly acid without an ounce of hesitation. Her face screwed up as she fought back tears of hatred for herself and still for John. Why did she hate him so much all of a sudden? Being so mean to him?

"I'm sorry." She whispered as she kept her eyes locked on the bridge edge. She pictured John standing there pushing his glasses back up onto his face.

"What?" Billy said as he stopped squirming at Kelly. He took a step back and looked at her face angrily. "What do you mean sorry? Sorry isn't going to bring him back Kelly! You killed him! You murdered our best friend! He freaking loved you Kelly and you killed him!" Billy dropped to the floor sobbing again. He pulled his knees to his chest and bowed his head crying louder. John was his brother, and someone had taken his brother away. He didn't know how he was going to manage without John. Without his brother by his side.

As Kelly stood there staring at the illusion of John, and Billy sat on the ground crying hysterically. Then a huge gust of wind pushed against Kelly and Billy and they suddenly snapped out of their sad gazes. It appeared that something had flown upward but they were too scared to break their necks looking up.

Billy jumped up and stood next to Kelly. "Kelly what was that?"

"How am I supposed to know? The game is all screwed up now. This could be like a new boss or something."

Then the figure landed powerfully on the bridge platform, which shook the entire level and pushed up dust from all around. Billy moved closer to Kelly almost hiding behind her. But Kelly just covered her face with her shirt and stared into the dust as a figure started to form. Then when it all had settled she gasped in complete and utter shock.

"No."