The Fall (Revised)

Chapter Nine

 Fallon is here in all his glory, his dishevelled hair, his beautiful eyes. He is alive. Fallon is alive. But how?

Take one guess.

Was this what you were panicking about?

Indeed it was.

But this is great, Fallon is alive- living, breathing, living once again!

But we used dark magic.

So what?

I was cut off with my conversation with Irky when Fallon came over and hugged me. He seems familiar and yet so different. I missed his hugs. But now he is here, standing in front of me, hugging me. His face was in my hair, and his arms were keeping me caged against him. I didn't mind it though, I was holding onto him just as hard.

I am still laying in bed, and we were in an uncomfortable position, but we don't care. All that matters is this right here. All that matters is that he is okay. I start to cry before I know it and Fallon pulls back slightly and he places his forehead against mine. "Don't cry Shelbey, I hate it when you cry."

Joden whistled and then walked out of the room, going to do his own thing. Why did he come here if he didn't want to hurt me?

I moved over on the bed so now Fallon's sitting next to me on the bed. We lean against each other, completely codependent. It feels like we need each other to live, he was my air, my water, and now that he is back, I don't know how I survived those few days away from him.

He whispers, "Thanks for bringing me back Shelbey." I smile at him and snuggle closer, savouring the feeling of being in his arms.

"I missed you so much, everyone did. You are worth everything to me Fallon, I don't know how I lived those few days without you." I mumble into his shirt.

Fallon shifts and I look up at his face. He gives a dark look and says, "You might be the only one who missed me."

I sit up taller and look him in the eyes, "Everyone missed you, Fallon. It was sad without you here cracking jokes and experiencing life with all of us."

He gives a cynical laugh, "Sure."

I give him an intense look and say,  "Even if no one else noticed you are gone, I will notice. But that wasn't the case, your death was a hole in the Society, a hole in our hearts. So don't you think for a moment that you weren't missed. Because your friends missed you with all our hearts."

Fallon has never had the closest relationship wit his family, often feeling like they don't understand him, and they don't even react when he goes missing. But this time, they seemed generally sad at his funeral. They missed him, and maybe he wouldn't believe that, but they did. I could tell they missed him with every sob they gave off.

Fallon widens his eyes at my rant and his eyes find mine. He leans and we once again are forehead to forehead. "I love you Shelbey, so much."

My heart starts to beat faster, and I blush. "I love you too, Fallon," I tell him. Because I do. I do love him. I love the goofball who threw his shoe at me. I love the gentleman who would run to my house if I forgot my bag. I love my shining knight who would protect me even in his final moments. I love Fallon who would sit with me like this. 

Before I know what has happened his lips are on mine.  Our lips moved slightly out of sync and our hearts were beating rapidly. It is sloppy and all over the place and kind of horrible, but when we move away I couldn't help but miss it. It felt as if Fallon is a drug and I am addicted, I missed the feeling of his lips on mine. So once we both catch our breath I move in for another kiss. This one is significantly better, and Fallon responds to my touch when I move my hands to play in his hair. His hands move down to my waist and he moves his hands till they are on my hips. I could definitely get used to this.

When we pull away for the second time I find that I am kind of sad it's over. Fallon sighs and moves me so I'm kind of on his chest, and we both fall asleep in each others embrace.

-=- Fallon's P.O.V (Flashback to death) -=-

Darkness. I am surrounded by darkness. It is surrounding me, suffocating me. It fills me and sustains me. No light is to be seen, but that's okay because the darkness welcomes me with open arms. 

I float through the dark void for what seems like forever. I float, lost; floating without meaning through the void. How did I get here?

Is this what I deserve? Everlasting darkness?

Just as that thought flits through my mind a light shines brighter than anything I've ever seen. It's coming towards me, growing bigger and bigger by the second.

All of a sudden memory after memory comes washing back to me, wave after wave. It is relentless. I see everything I've ever done in a single blink. The overwhelming sensation gives me a slight headache. But once the memories stop replaying I find myself in the middle of the light. 

Being surrounded by light is a weird sensation. It's not as suffocating as darkness, but more freeing. It feels like I can do anything. It's a warm sensation, kind of like when I am cuddling with Shelbey. The warmth spreads through your body, leaving nothing left for the darkness to claim. I look around the light and I see a gate.

The gate to paradise.

I start to walk to it but stop. What about home? What about Shelbey, Roman, and Bailey? I can't leave them behind. What about my family? They might not love me, but I love them, how could I not?

I stand in the middle of the light debating what to do.

"Just go kid, the gate will open for you." a person pops up beside me and smiles. "The gate of paradise will open for you and nothing will ever bother you again, you'll be in absolute bliss."

I take a step before I stop once again, "What about my friends and family I'd be leaving behind. I can't do that to them."

The person walks around me, circling me and then screens pop up, the screens display everyone I know sitting contently doing nothing, not even phased that I am gone. "They don't care about you. They don't even notice you're gone." I see Shelbey, Roman and Bailey sitting around our lunch table laughing. Not even bothered that I'm gone. "See you don't matter to them. Just step through the gate. Let your life belong to me and I'll make sure all this pain, all this darkness vanishes."

They don't matter to me, they can have their fun. "They don't matter," I mutter as I walk towards the gate once again. 

The person squeals, "Yes! They don't matter. If you just walk through the gate you will have a life of pure bliss awaiting you." I don't look back, a life of pure bliss sounds amazing. 

But then I hear it. 

A voice.

Shelbey's voice.

She's calling to me, she's crying. Why is she crying? I hate it when she cries. I turn around and I look back into the darkness where I swear I can see her standing, calling for me. The person sees this and starts ranting about pure bliss again. But this time I don't hear him. I leap back into the darkness to get her. I would never leave her behind. 

Before I know it my eyes are open and I'm staring up into the sky. But the weird part of the sky is the threads. I sit up and look around, silver threads connect each person to another, almost like a spider web.

Each person's thread overlaps another's, tieing them to each other. I look over to see Shelbey, her thread is golden, unlike everyone else's silver ones. But the thing is that her golden thread wraps around me, almost as if it has me caged in. My own dull silver thread does the exact same to her. I look at Shelbey and am thoroughly surprised to see another face behind hers. Shelbey seems to have another inside of her, another person living in the confines of her body. One single black thread binds this person's wrists together like shackles. 

Everyone is intertwined with each other it seems. It's a scary thought that my action would affect so many others, and it makes me shiver. Before I could ask anyone what was going on Shelbey faints. I get up quickly and catch her. What is going on?