One Year After 3

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SAM

At this point my tears are uncontrollably pouring out of my eyes. I'm not a crier, but this is testing my limits. "Josh?" I manage to squeak out. He stands up and I see all of his scars. One of his eyes is milky and glass like, he has a "smile scar" on the right side of his mouth, he has what looks like purple-blue lightning bolts up and down his right body.

"Hi Sam." Josh says to me. I'm speechless. We stand in an uncomfortable silence, and the whole restaurant stares at us. Josh comes closer to me as if he was trying to get a hug, but my first instinct wasn't the same.

Josh slowly puts his hand up to touch where I slapped him. "I'm sorry" I whisper and hug him.

"You can be mad." He whispers and embraces me.
"What happened...?" I barely manage to get out.
He ignores my question and tells me to call Chris.

ASHLEY

I look at Chris as he answers the call. Almost immediately he has a confused and shocked look on his face. "Is this a joke? Because if it is it's not funny." (Prank olympics ;) Bella_Pone ) He starts shaking a bit and I hold his hand. He looks at me and I mouth, "what is she saying?" He turns away from me and gets up. Mike, Jess, and I are staring down Chris as he paces the room with his hand going through his hair. "Sam..can-" he starts shaking even harder and his voice cracked. I could feel myself becoming emotional and I noticed Jess holding onto Mike's hand. "Can I talk to him?" He finally got out.

Though it wasn't said, we all had the feeling that it   Josh. The same Josh that was killed by his sister. Our Josh. Chris suddenly started crying. "Hey Cochise." He smiled widely and tears didn't stop coming. "It's so good to hear your voice." He mumbled, "Can we talk to him?" Jess asked. Chris nodded and put the call on speaker. He sat next to us and put the phone on the table. "Hello?" A familiar and missed voice said.

EMILY

I decided to finally see a therapist. She told me to talk to Matt. I hesitantly nodded my head. I didn't want to. In my head, I screamed. "No!" My brain yelled. Then, he called me. In the therapist's office. Was this set up? She told me to answer it. I didn't want to. But I did. "Hello?" I said. "Hey, Em" He said. I missed Matt's voice. "Josh is alive"
Oh.

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