Finally

Am I in heaven?

Elliot's POV

I left the shelter feeling satisfied, Maddox, I saw him and I knew that I just had to have him. He seemed so carefree, it's something that you don't see in a lot of homeless people. He had this look in his eyes that made me just want to hug him, it was a look that said how grateful he was for everything that was happening. When I told him I would see him tomorrow i wasn't joking I told everybody back at the office that I was going to check on the shelter in Illinois that my dad had established before he gave the company to me. I had never been here before and I thought I should check up on how everything was running.

I never thought I would find a person that i was so smitten with on my first day here. When I got back to my hotel I first went into the shower to wash away all of the tension in my body before going out to the balcony to do some reading. I was out there for a little over an hour when I noticed the boy walking onto the pier. I saw him drop something and turn his head over to where I was. It was to dark for him to see me and also to dark for me to see his face properly.

He looked back down at the water and I saw his shoulders relax slightly. I continued looking at him until he stepped forward and walked into the water. I let out a strangled scream and jumped over my balcony landing in the grass, quickly getting up and dashing out to the water. I hadn't seen him come up from the water yet so I dived in.

The water was really dark and I couldn't see very well but I felt something below me and reached out and grabbed it tugging upwards dragging him to the surface. When I broke the surface I hoisted him up and started chest compression's. He eventually coughed up the water and started breathing on his own again. I sighed and watched his chest making sure that he didn't stop breathing.

He didn't wake up but i was still relived that I had saved him. My eyes slowly trailed up his slender body and my breath hitched when they landed on his face.

Maddox.
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Maddox's POV

My chest is burning and my eyes hurt. I crack my eyes open only to shut them forcefully because of the blinding light that seeps into the room i'm in. I turn away from the light and open my eyes again. It looks like i am in a hotel room, I can tell because of the logo on the towels that are strewn around the room in disarray. I open my mouth to call out but my voice cracks and I break out in a coughing fit.

I cough so hard that tears start making their way out of my eyes. I feel a hard pat on my back helping me stop coughing only for me to freeze and realize that someone is in the room with me. I turn around only to come face to face with Elliot, the man that i met at the shelter.

"Are you feeling any better?" he asks me. I look at him confused for a while trying to make sense of what was happening. I nod my head and  open my mouth to say something but he cuts in and gives me a glass of water. I drink a couple sips of the water before setting it on the table next to the bed.

"Am I in heaven?" I ask him cautiously furrowing my eyebrows.

He looks at me with concern and sighs as he says "no, Maddox, you are not in heaven, you are in my hotel room".

"So I'm not dead" I whisper to myself as the realization starts to set in.

"No your not, I saved you" Elliot told me as if i should be thanking him for his kind act.

"Why" i whisper.

"Why- why did you do it you should have let me drown, you should have- you-" I scream at him before breaking down in tears.

I continue to cry and scream while he just sits next to me and puts his arms around me letting me cry into his shoulder.

"I saved you because I care" He said softly, before I fall asleep crying.

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"Maddox, you need to wake up" I hear a voice tell me.

"No I don't want to get up this early dad" I grumble to myself before turning over and snuggling into the soft blankets. Wait, soft blankets, I open my eyes and sit up quickly. I see Elliot sitting next to my looking at me with concern and a bit of question.

All of what happened yesterday came rushing back to me and I looked down at my lap, feeling ashamed.

"I am so sorry about, um, y-yesterday" I mumbled.

"It's okay Maddox, I understand" He told me reassuringly. I nodded and looked around the room. 

"Um, y-you didn't happen to grab the bag out by the wa-water, did you?" I asked in a small voice.

"No sorry I didn't, I was to focused on getting you out of the water to really notice anything out there, but it's probably not out there now, was there something important that you needed from it?" He said with a little bitterness in his voice.

I shook my head thinking about the medicine that my dad always managed to get us each month that he made me take, I'm not sure what they were just that he said I got sick when I didn't take them. I didn't want to make Elliot mad anymore so I just said no.

Elliot let me go into the bathroom and take a shower after making sure that all sharp objects and things I could hurt myself with were not in there. I felt slightly annoyed at his actions but understood that he just didn't want me to try to kill myself again.

Like that could stop us the voice in my head sneered also annoyed by Elliot's precautions. I was just about to turn on the shower head when Elliot opened his mouth to say something.

"We will talk when you come out of the shower, please don't try to kill yourself" he pleaded as his eyes started tearing up.

I nodded as the voice in my head started talking again We won't right now but eventually you will be rid of us.