Who We Really are

Chapter 23

LAST CHAPTER GUYS!!! WE'VE ALL MADE IT SO FAR!!!! I LOVED WRITING THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE ever since I started writing this story I knew how I wanted it to end. Anyways to honor the last chapter here are bunches of quotes. Some go with the chapter and some I just love!

"And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die." - Unkown

"When he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him, but for all the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again." - Ray Bradbury

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin

"Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love." -Unknown

"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave." -Winnie The Pooh

If you can't fly, then run

If you can't run, then walk

If you can't walk, then crawl

But whatever you do you must keep moving foreword - MLK Jr.

To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness inside yourself. - Chronicles of Narnia; Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Ok sorry about all of the quotes. I would put a lot more but I want you to read this chapter! ahh I'm so excited. Ok anyways. Get to reading my lovely readers!!!

Chapter 23

I don't remember the pain of the bullet hitting my body, but I remember the pain of the poison spreading throughout my body.

I remember watching Torrent walk away. And the workers stopped shooting at us and they walked away.

I remember seeing that a majority of the dead people were Cloud worked and I was the only Survivor who was dying. Irony isn't it? I'm a Survivor but I'm dying.

I remember Kennan catching me after I fell on my knees and then lay me down on my back.

My vision was blurred and dazed and I knew I was dying. I could feel it. I wasn't scared. Just worried. Worried about Kennan.

I remember seeing Ollie coming over. I remember she has these powers where she could heal me. I heard Kennan ask if she could save me. I saw her shake her head.

I remember her saying that the poison was already in my blood stream and I was to far gone. I spilled a tear.

I remember Ollie leaving and Kennan and me being the only two left.

"Rehyn don't close your eyes. We can fix you."

"Kennan I'm not scared." I could barely say. My vision and my hearing kept going in and out.

"Please don't die."

"I won't. I'll leave this world but I won't die." I'm could see a tear roll down his cheek. I tried to wipe it away but I was to weak. "Kennan do you remember Winnie the Pooh?" I asked

He laughed and nodded his head. I could tell he was trying so hard to be strong for me but that only made him weaker.

"Ok well he once said that 'If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.'"

"How did you manage to remember that."

I smiled. "I'll always be with you." I took the little silver ring I always wore on my middle finger off. It took all my strength but I reached up to take his hand and put it into mine and rested it above his heart and while I did that I gave him my ring. "Your my best friend Kennan."

"You're my best friend Rehyn."

"And don't forget me ok. Because if you forget me I will haunt you." My speech was harder my vision was getting worse and worse.

"You're not going to die."

"You're my world. You're my everything and I wouldn't trade you for anything." I couldn't feel the bottom half of my body. I felt death creeping upon me. So I spat out as fast I could, "this is not goodbye, it's hello in another language." I paused thinking of what I wanted my last words to be. They ended up being the three most sentimental words anyone could say to someone. "I love you." I dropped my hand from his heart, took my last breath and smiled for the last time.

***

I died. I could tell. I was standing up and Kennan couldn't see me. I think the professional term is out of body experience.

I knew I was dead because I could see my dead body and Kennan on his knees screaming. I walked over to Kennan and tried talking to him. "I'm right here!" I yelled. "Look behind you! Please don't forget me." I was crying with him. He kept putting his head on my heart and then lifting it back up. I walked in front of him and by my lifeless body. I was dead. since my jacket had been black you couldn't see much blood. Thank goodness. Kennan started talking. "I guess it was your time. You get to see your mom and dad and my parents. I'll miss you like crazy." He said staring at me. He closed my dilated eyes. He messed with my hair and just stared at me.

I heard the familiar clank of the shoes of the man that killed me. "Guards take her away." Torrent said snapping his fingers like he was some sort of king.

"You can't have her."

"Who's going stop me Colton." He shut up after that. I wished he would've kept fighting but he didn't make me angry. He made me smile.

"Wait please let me tell her something first." Torrent didn't say anything. I saw workers bringing out a board to lay my body on and take me away.

I didn't know what they'd do to me once they had me and I couldn't stop them. I could follow them and find out. They took my body and Kennan put up a fight. He had gotten up and was kicking and punching everybody, finally a guard got him and pinned him down. Once my body was almost out of the room with me tailing it Kennan yelled at the top of his lungs and with as much force as he could with a knife pinned to his throat "KATY WAKE UP!!!" I felt my soul slipping away. I wasn't ready to go but I was already gone.

***

I remember waking up panting. I was back inside my body, or so I thought. I was laying in a bed with lots of IV's connected to me.

Was I in a hospital? I looked straight ahead and saw lots of get well soon cards and balloons and flowers galore. It was like a forest.

Do they have a hospital in the afterlife? I saw two people talking. It was my mom and someone else.

I tried lifting myself up but I was to weak. "Mom?" I asked. She turned around and almost fainted. The other person left and my mom came running.

"Oh Katy, Katy I've missed you so much. I'm so glad you're back."

"Mom my names Rehyn."

"No that's your little sisters name."

"Mom am I dead?" All of the sudden a little girl emerged from behind my mother. She was about five but looked like Katy. "Katy?" I asked

"No sweetie, you're Katy and this is Rehyn."

"What? Mom I'm dead. You died five years ago in the apocalypse." I was so confused. What is going on?

She laughed. "Katy. You are Katy and five years ago you were in a terrible bus accident." I started crying for no reason. "The bus was hit by a semi truck and it's a long story I'll tell you later but you and Kennan were the only two people who survived the accident."

"Mommy what are you saying." I sounded like a whining, scared, baby girl.

"I'm saying, baby," she paused taking in my details. "You've been in a coma for the past five years."

*A.N. Please don't hate me! but what did you think of the story as a whole? what about this ending? I wonder if anyone predicted it. Anyways tell me what you think in the comments I love feedback! other than that thanks for reading and being awesome! Love all of my lovely readers. Bless you all :) <3. Don't forget to vote/ comment/ fan. Thanks :):):))))

Oh and p.s. I'm writing a sequel ;) I guess I better get working on that sequel.