His Dusk, Her Dawn (Completed)

Chapter 23

Lazarus

I laid down playing with my phone when I heard stuff falling in the bathroom.

What the hell is she doing?

Then I heard a faint cry of my name. I jumped up trying to open the door. Something was leaning against it keeping me from opening it.

I looked down behind the crack to see it was Luna.

"Luna...what's wrong with you...I can't..I cant get it open!"

I pushed as hard as I could finally squeezing inside the small room.

She was having seizures or something. Her body shook and her eyes were dark.

I saw the vile and the needle on the counter and tears instantly filled my eyes.

"Luna please! Say somethin....please!!"

Her body shook endlessly in my arms. Her stare. Blank. Like she was looking into another world.

I held her tightly until the shaking stopped. "It's gonna be okay just please stay with me." I cried out.

When I pulled away her eyes were glassy. The heat started to leave her skin.

She was gone.

"NOOOOO!! MARIAHHHH!! MARIAHHHHHH!" I couldn't contain my emotions. My body heaved as the cries left.

She came and turned my life inside out and now she was gone. Just like that.

Mariah rushed to the door "WHAT WHATS WRONG IS- oh my God...." she placed her hands over her mouth as she cried.

The moon had set. Now I didn't know if my sun would rise or not.

My whole world has become dark in an instant, I felt more emptier than before... I had finally found happiness and now it was gone... A part of me died with her. A part of me that I will never get back or see.. I will never be the same without My Moon. It will forever be dark......

Mariah

I held on to Lazarus who sobbed in my arms as the coroner took Luna's lifeless body away.

They had been here for hours investigating even after we told them it was an accidental overdose.

"Come on Laz, let's go in the house." I spoke softly.

We turned and walked in the cold building. I had to help Lazarus up the stairs, he had no strength due to him crying.

We made it into my house and guided him to my room and he sat on the bed.

"Come on, let's get you out of these clothes and into your sleeping clothes" I said pulling his shirt off.

"How could she be gone Riah? HOW?" He said through cries as he stared at me through tears.

Seeing him like this broke my heart, I quickly looked away.

"It's just..... life Laz...." I said simply.

I hate seeing him like this but I had to do what I had to do...

My heart wanted to break at the thought of how sick and cruel I was to kill my cousin but another part of me just wouldn't allow it.

You weren't wrong for killing her Mariah.
It was bound to happen one day.

I grabbed Laz a pair of sweats and he threw them on.

"You can sleep in my bed tonight, Laz"

He nodded and crawled up to the pillows, got under the cover and laid down.

I heard a few quick breathes leave his mouth as I slipped on my pajamas.

After I was done, I walked over to the bed to see tears sliding across the bridge of his nose.

I got into bed and held onto him as he continued to cry.

"It's all finna be okay, Lazzy... She's in a better place now."

"Why couldn't he just take me instead?" He raised up asking.

I furrowed my brows. "What're you talking about Lazarus?"

"God... Why her, huh?" More tears escaped from his eyes causing my heartbeat to halt.

You must not feel bad for what you did now, Riah... What's done is done.

Tears slipped from my eyes. "I miss her too but don't say that Laz.."

He laid back on my chest wrapping his arms around my torso. I begin to rub his back gently.
"Shhh baby.. Shh..."

I rocked him a bit seeming to calm him down.

After awhile his cries subsided and I looked down to see him sleep.

I kissed the top of his head and fell asleep myself.

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I heard someone gasping for air, I followed the disturbing noise to the bathroom. When I opened the cracked door I saw Luna on the floor with black liquid bleeding from her mouth and her skin a scary light Blue. She almost looked frozen. The thought made me realize how insanely cold it was in here.

Once she spotted me her stare turned Evil.

"You did this to me bitch... Ya think everything is finna be okay now? Well you are wrong."

She got up in an instant with a needle in her hand. She rushed over to me pushing me into a wall, I was hemmed in between her and the wall.

She took the poison needle and held it up.

"You're coming with me!!" She said through gritted teeth.

My heart began racing, it was speeding so fast I could feel it connect with my chest walls.

I screamed as the needle came down and stabbed me right in the chest turning my skin black instantly.

My vision became blurred as I struggled to breath.

Luna's evil laughs could be heard as I my skin continued to change and burn.

My screams grew louder as the pain worsened.

"HELP!!!!" I yelled to the top of my lungs.

"There's no one to help you..."

I quickly sat up trying to catch my breath. The horrid image still lingering in my mind.

I realized it was a nightmare.

I looked over my right shoulder to see Lazarus sleeping peacefully.

From the corner of my eye I saw a dark shadow causing me to quickly look up but noting was there.

I took a hand running it up my face and through my hair as a stressful sight left me lips.

"Get it together Mariah." I said low to myself.

I laid back down facing Lazarus's sleeping face.

A small smile managed to spread across my face as I stared at him.

I'm finally getting a chance with him.