A/N Conclusion to the cliffhanger!! Yaay!!
This chapter also just happens to have my favorite quote. It's about Nathan, and Abbi says it. See if you can guess what it is!
A soft glow slowly expands to become an excruciating brightness that blinds me. I don’t know what this is supposed to be but it might be the thing Nathan wanted Eliza to show me. I feel a jolting shock. I scream. I remember back when the police came to me right after they came to Nathan’s parents to tell me he died. They said he got hit by a semi-truck. I think the jolt was from the semi-truck, I feel so much pain, that I believe was Nathan’s. I scream again, not from the terrifying jolt of the semi-truck but from the pain it caused. A ghost is overtaking my body and I can’t control it.
His emptiness is overtaking me like a deadly virus and his strength to fight back the ghost and his strength to hold on is diminishing.
I come to conclusion that this is how Nathan died and he wanted to show me this for some reason. And he knew exactly how and when he was going to die is making me start to judge the Nathan I thought I knew.
It’s wrong I can’t comfort him, help him in his time of need and utter aloneness.
I’m experiencing what Nathan did but it feels like I’m watching it unravel in slow motion.
The glass from the windows shatter. The car starts spinning out beneath me-him- and I feel his strength diminish even faster.
Everywhere he looks is a blinding darkness. Nathan wonders if he is dead, I know the outcome of this accident is ugly but I don’t think he’s dead-yet.
The ghost is tempting him to give up. Death would be simpler than waking up and dealing with the horrendous aftermath of the accident. I almost believe him and let go and join Nathan in where ever he goes after this. But I know that probably isn’t even possible considering I’m not with him and he died over a week ago.
The brightness returns and replaces the blinding darkness but it doesn’t help Nathan’s case at all.
The ghost speaks to him again, trying to convince him to give up. Then silence.
Nathan gave up. He listened to the ghost and he died. The fighter I knew lost everything when that semi-truck hit him.
I stumble and gasp once Eliza lets go of my hand.
“He told me to say one more thing to you, Abbigail. Don’t tell your sister what he showed you. He was very persistent in making me remember this. I don’t know why exactly he doesn’t want you to tell your sister. Maybe trust issues?”
I’m still struggling for breath so I just look at her.
“You should go back to your sister, Abbigail. Don’t forget what he said. Don’t tell her.”
“Wait!” I yell.
“Yes, Abbigail?”
“Do you know what he showed me?”
“He refused to tell me no matter how much I pushed him.” I smile, remembering how persistent Nathan was. “So I’m the only one who knows then?”
“Unless you tell your sister which I highly don’t suggest. I trust Nathan whole-heartedly. You should too."
And then she’s gone.
Gone like, POOF.
No, she didn’t fade away. She was just gone.
I stand there for a couple more seconds waiting for I don’t know what and then I try to talk to Nathan again.
Why did you show me your death? I ask him, expecting no reply.
You’ll understand soon Abbi. he says, making me jump.
Don’t you think I have enough to deal with right now? I didn’t need to see you die. I already feel that you’re dead.
You need to know what happened.
I already do. Don’t I?
You don’t know the first thing about my death, Abbi.
And just like that, he shifts out of communication. I turn around and walk back to my sister. She stares at me, daring me to break down and sob. The things I experienced in the forest was terrifying.
“So,” she says carefully. “What did she say?”
“Nothing important, ‘watch for the Mortalitas’. You know, typical Cupitor to Cupitor talk.”
“Typical? Nothing about this is typical Abbi. None. Nothing.”
I know I shouldn’t tell her about Nathan’s death but she can always tell when I lie, a case proven fact many times over.
“Nathan wanted to show me something.” I say to her quietly.
“And that was possible how?”
“They were good friends, Addison. He knew he was going to die. He told her to show me something. And he told me not to tell you.”
I refuse to look her in the eyes. “He, he what? He told you not to show me? Why? You are going to tell me, right?”
I still don’t look her in the eyes. “I don’t know Addison. I know you’re my sister but he had something to do with this world,” I say. “If he told me not to tell you something I need to trust him.”
“You’d rather trust your dead boyfriend than your own sister?!” she explodes, seriously mad that both I and Nathan don’t trust her.
“Addison, he knows more about this world than you- us-. It’s safer this way and I’m sorry.”
