Skylox - Nearly There

Chapter 16: Save The Little One

Sorry this chapter was a little late! I was SO busy preparing for christmas. Comment what you guys got for christmas after!!

Also, I have a friend who is really, really having a tough time right now. Her name sounds like Kate, so we'll call her that. Kate has been cutting, not eating, not talking, and even having suicidal thoughts. Please, please, please if anybody has had a friend in a similar situation, what do I do!!!!?! I am really worried, even though we're not even close friends. She doesn't have friends at school, and the only reason I know her is because she sat next to me in math for term 1. She's a really sweet girl and she is basically torturing herself and i can't stand seeing it happen and not do anything. I watch her throw her lunch away every day, I watch her avoid conversation, and I've heard her cry in the washrooms. I have tried to be a friend but she doesn't want to talk to anyone. I don't know what to do and I will not let such a sweet girl continue to torture herself. I would hate myself if she ever committed suicide. Please, please if anyone knows what to do, message me, anything. Please.

Anything! I just, I don't know. Please, if you know what to do, or even have any ideas, tell me. I will not watch her hurt herself any longer. I can't.

Please.

TY'S POV

Pain.

Pain was the only thing left.

I felt nothing but sharp pain.

Emotionless.

Nothing.

Just pain.

I could physically feel my body starting to shut down. I must have been wounded deeply. I hear nothing but a pounding in my ears, which i guess was my heartbeat. It slowed and became quieter within the minute.

I thought dying would be different.

I read once that after a person dies, their brain is still functioning for another 7 minutes. It is the brain playing back all of that persons memories in a dream sequence.

I was preparing for that. I waited to see me getting bullied in the hallways of school, and that one day in grade 9 when a boy from my history class stopped it all.

"Would you like it if someone did this to you every single day?!" He said, before he pushed the bully against a locker. He shoved the bully to the floor and walked toward me. I thought he would hit me next, when he raised his hand. Instead, he patted me on the shoulder.

"You alright?" He asked.

"Y-yeah. I'm Ty." I said.

"I'm Adam." He said.

From that day on, I didn't hate going to school. I didn't think life was pointless. I didn't think I had no purpose on this earth. Every day, Adam and I played video games after school. We became best friends.

All these pleasant memories swan in my mind when I heard something.

Not a thought, and not my slowing heartbeat, but a sob. A voice I'd recognize anywhere.

"P-please Ty! Come back! Don't leave us! Don't leave me!" Cried Adam.

Wait, I'm not dead? Awesome!

I'll have to do a happy dance once I'm conscious again, and can move my feet. I felt slight pressure on my hand.

I tried with all my might, to just flick my fingers. I don't think I can.

Maybe I am dying.

~NOBODY'S POV~

Everyone watched as Ty gave his life to save Adam's. It was true bravery. He left us in honour, nobody could deny that. They all felt awful that they never got to say a proper goodbye. All these thoughts in a split second as someone is killed, it really does something to you.