Life, Death, And Everything In Between

Falzone

I start to mess with the string in my chest while Harley searches on the internet for anything similar to what happened to us.

"do you think other people can see me?" I ask. she sigs and spins around in her chair.

"I don't know, I mean if I can see you, other people can right?"

"So maybe I'm not dead! I mean, if you can see me and others can see me, then maybe its like I never died?"

"well there's only one way to find out." she says getting up, "Come on."

"Were are we going?"

"my mom just texted me saying she's home," She lives down the street, lets go say hi."

"you don't live with your mom?"

"no, when my dad died I emancipated myself. its not that I don't like my mom, its a rite of passage so to speak."

"Right of passage?"

"yeah, I wanna prove to her and myself that I am a responsible adult. Make my dad proud or something, were here." she says stopping at a cute little green house. she pulls out her keys and unlocks the door.

"mom I'm here!" Harley yells walking in with me behind her. A tall woman with light brown hair and beautiful green eyes walks in the room, taking off her coat. "oh hello honey, how was School today?" she asks,then looks at me. "Whos that?"

"you can see her too?"

"well who couldn't?" She says, Walking Towards me,

then through me.

the same terrible force jolting through my whole body. everything went dizzy and I almost fell, but I caught myself and looked at what she was walking towards.

It was the man.

The same man that killed me, I could feel the bullet in my tummy, squirming and screaming in my insides.

"stop her." I said to Harley.

"Mom don't look at strangers like that, and shut the door for petes sake its freezing outside you'll get a cold!"

"But I heard about the attack, oh honey I'm so sorry you had to whiteness something like that, heaven forbid what the poor girls parents are handling this. we should phone them, what was the girls name?"

I look at her with furry in my eyes, shaking y head left to right so hard and so fast I thought my head was going to fall off.

"uh, I don't know. I didn't know her." she lies quickly.

I sigh in relief and sit down on the dining room table. Harley looks at me in confusion as she's talking to her mother.

"And the Patents hand was as big as a- Hey honey, what are you looking at?"

"oh nothing, Sorry mom but I have a lot of work to catch up on, so I need to get going.  I love you, and don't forget your donating to the blood drive with me Saturday, I cant do it without you!" she yells to her mother walking out, with me hot on her tail.

"Alright honey text me the time when you get home ok? I love you get home safe!"

"you got it mom!"

we start to head home when she asks me. "Hey Fal?"

"yeah?"

"why didn't you want my mom to call your family?"

"Nothing really, its just that my family doesn't really need the pity of others. Especially when its the death of their disappointment of a daughter." I say bluntly.

"what? Fal your parents cant possibly think that way about you can they?"

"I don't know, ask them, they're a household name. The Falzone Family?"

"What?! you are the Daughter to the Mayweather Falzone and The Termine Falzone?!"

"god you act like its a Big deal, you don't even know what they really do, do you ?"

"well no but I know they're rich and famous and that's good enough for me!"

"you and everyone else. lets get home I'm tired."

"can you even sleep?"

"only one way to find out."