Don't Give Up On Me

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I went back to the room that started this whole thing. "Gregg! Come on man come out!"

"You don't have to shout ya know."

"They are going to unplug me tomorrow, there's no hope. They've made up their mind."

"Would you relax, and stop pacing will ya."

"you said I have two weeks to convince them! And what the hell, I went to sleep and I woke 2 days after!"

"oh right, I forgot to tell you that, don't sleep, the time is messed up. Because technically you cheated death."

"Yea but I haven't done anything."

"You're wrong, see how they all went up to Dianna at the end. And she agrees with them. You see, you give her hope. She's starting to be able to let go because of you. You gave her the wrong hope. She thinks that you're going to be there now. At least for a while."

"Wait, if the real me is gone, am I gonna stuck in this body forever."

"No, if your body dies, you will too." Oh no.

"But I have no time!"

"Yes you do, they're unplugging you tomorrow. Go convince her." And he disappears again. Can he at least say bye or something. I call her up and ask where she is. She's at the café, so I made my way there.

It was late at night. I'm so glad that it opens 24 hours. I saw Dianna sitting in the corner of the room. I sat in front of her without saying anything.

"you don't get to be mad at me." she said

"The decision that was made, it was all depended on you. If you said no, they would have keep the plug on."

"Listen, at this point I believe that you're really close to him. Maybe you two are childhood friend or something but—"

"No Dianna." I grab her hand and hold it onto my chest. "I am sure deep inside, no matter how ridiculous it may have sounded. I know you believe that I am Matt." She pulls away her hand and say

"There's nothing that I can do, I'm sorry." I realize that this is it. I am done.

"I see. I guess this is goodbye then."

"You're not gonna be in the hospital tomorrow?"

I stood up and say "I'm gonna be somewhere, you might know where." and I left her just like that.

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I was sitting on the café's rooftop. I've been here all night. I looked at the time, 1 more hour until they unplug the machine and I'm gonna die. Really die this time.

"I thought I'd found you here." Dianna, what is she doing here?

"One more hour, if you're trying to get me into the hospital, don't bother."

"I wasn't going to. Have you been here all night?"

"Yea"

"Why did you come here?" I sigh, no matter what I say doesn't matter anyway. I'm gonna die in an hour. She came and sat next to me. I turn my self facing her.

"We discovered this place together, and that time we had a moment but I let it slip away I was a coward. And the next day you pretended like nothing happened. Even now I still am a coward, I waited till this moment to do this. When I know I'm about to die soon."

"What are you—"

"Let me finish. I am Matthew Ferguson, and I am in love with you. I know you don't believe me but I had to do this before I die. Again."

I lean my self towards her and kiss her. I can feel her soft lips pressing against mine. Not only she's accepting me, but she's actually kissing me back. I can't help but for my tears to stream down my face, and I pull away.

"I'm sorry I'm crying." And I laughed at my self "This is not how I pictured my self wile kissing you."

"It's okay." She took my hand and hold it tight. "You really think that you are him huh."

"Please, I am him. And I know it sounds crazy."

She stares into my eyes and say "Convince me."

"I don't want you to regret your decision, if I ended up convincing you and then I die. What's gonna happen to you?"

"Do it anyway."

"You like chocolate mint ice cream, you always touches your eyebrows when you're thinking really hard."

"Anyone could have guessed that " she stands up, about to leave and make her way to the hospital.

"I know why you didn't want to pick up Clary's call."

She turn around at me, shocked. "What?"

"In the car, you were driving, you didn't want to pick up her call. It's because I was answering your phone call when I got into the accident. Right?"

I can see her eyes are starting to get watery.

"My laptop, it's locked. The Password is gummybear. I know it's stupid, but to me it's not. you know why, because last year you didn't know what to get me for my birthday so you bought one whole box of gummy bears. Try to ask anyone who knows what my password is, you wont find any."

"Stop it."

"You asked me to convince you, now I am convincing you. I know I should've said this sooner, I don't know why I didn't thought of it."

"I have to go now." And I let her walk away.

It's just a matter of time now. They're going to unplug me soon. I went back to the room in my dorm, and lay down on the bed. 10 more minutes away. I look up the ceiling, and laughed at myself. Im slowly falling asleep. I don't know what's gonna happen when I wake up.

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