Forbidden Love

Author's Note:

Should I enter this story in the watty awards?

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I looked him in the eye. I can't hide it anymore. "Aaron..."

He looked at me. His eyes filled with joy.

"I... I love you," I looked away, a tear running down my cheek. "But..."

He looked at me, confused.

"I'm dying..." I blacked out.

"Raven! Raven!!" He shook me, but I didn't wake up.

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"Honey..." A lady took my hand. "I'm sorry..."

I opened my eyes weakly. "M... Mom?" I looked around the room. I was in a hospital. I started to get up but mom pushed me back down.

"Y... You're gonna die soon..." She cried. "I'm... I'm sorry..."

I smiled sadly. "I know... I already know... from the start..."

I closed my eyes. The monitor went "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep......."

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I opened my eyes. "Am I dead?"

"No you're not."

I turned around and saw a boy with messy black hair. "W.. Who are you?"

"I'm Adrian," He said. "You're not dead... Well you are on your past life..."

"What do you mean?" I said, walking back.

"Look,"

As if on cue, a mirror showed up in front of me. I saw me, dying in the hospital... mom crying, and my funeral... Then a girl with curly black hair appeared.

"That's you..." Adrian said. "The girl with curly black hair."

"I'm not her..." I scoffed.

"That's you, Raven," He said. "This is your new life..."

"Where are we?" I looked around.

"Your home.."

"This isn't my house..." I said.

"It is now..." He said looking me in the eye.

"What do you mean?"

"Man, you're slow..." He sighed.

"Oh... My life..." I said.

"Well, thanks for the information, Adrian!" I smiled though I didn't really show the happiness.

"I'm sorry..." He, then, disappeared.

"It's okay," I muttered.

"Honey!!!" A lady entered the room.

"M.. Mom?" I said.

"Well of course!" She said.

This lady can't be mom... Mom's always tired but this girl here looks like she's not tired at all. Mom is always working but this lady don't even look like she's been working... Maybe this is what Adrian meant... Everything changed... including my life...

"Mom" looks rich. Even my room looks different. We use to be poor but this life is rich..

"Mom?" I said. "Where are we?"

"California.." She said. We didn't live in California, we live in New York..

"Oh, wow..." I muttered.

In the corner of my eye, I saw Adrian. "Adrian!"

"What is up with this new life?" I asked.

"Um... Honey?" My mom asked. "Who are you talking to?!"

I looked at her direction. "You mean.." I pointed at Adrian. "You don't... You don't see him?"

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

"Humans can't see or hear me..." Adrian said. "Only you.."

I scoffed. "Just toying with 'ya." I said to mom, smiling.

"I can also read your mind..." Says Adrian.

Shut up Adrian, I thought as I shooed mom out of the room.

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"So..." I said to Adrian. "Tell me 'bout this new life..."

"Red!!! Your brother's here!!!" Mom shouted from downstairs. "Go get the door!!"

"Coming!!!" I yelled. My name's Red?

"Brother? I don't have any brother... I have a sister!" I said.

"Well, you're sister is replaced." Adrian said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Opposite of sister is brother, right?" He says. "So brother..."

"Oh..." I said and opened the door.

To my surprise, my brother was Aaron.

"Aaron?!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, sis?" He asked.

"Um.. Nothing, bro.." I smiled. My crush is actually my brother?!

I let him in. "So anything good happen at school today?"

"You sound like mom!" He said then sighed.

I smiled. "Tell me!"

I saw him blush. "Remember about the girl I told you about?"

I didn't know but I nodded anyway.

"Well... She confessed her love to me..."

Another girl confessed to him?!

"But..." He continued.

"But what?" I'm curious about this girl.

"Raven died yesterday... before I told her I love her too."

I would have blush when he didn't mention the dying part.

"I'm sorry..." I said.

"It's okay, sis. You weren't there so it's not you're fault... It was my fault." He said.

"It's not you're fault!" I said. "It's just... Maybe, she knows that she's going to die... That's why she confessed before she died..."

I don't want our conversation to turn into a funeral so I changed the subject. "How is my little brother?"

"..."

"Uh-oh..." I said. "Another bad thing happened?"

"It's nothing, really..." He went to his room without saying another word.

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"Trip to the door went bad?" Asked Adrian. "Or is it your brother?"

"Oh... You're brother..." He said. "At least you know he likes you.."

"How'd you know?" I asked.

"I can read your mind, remember?" He said.

"Oh yeah..." I said.

"I wish I was alive..." I cried. "If only there was a way I can be alive again.."

"I'm sorry..." He dissapeared.

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Author's Note:

Should I?