Gabriel (Continued) (Book 2)

Part 4: Last Thoughts

May 28th (Nikola's POV)

"Crash!" I shrugged out of my mother's arms and ran over to Crash. He was bent

on the ground, covering his eyes. Little glass pieces caught themselves in my

dress and in my hands as I bent down. Blood trickled between his fingers.

"Crash, talk to me," I beg.

"Nikola, I can't see," he gasps. Oh my God, he was now blind. I stayed near him

because I didn't know where else to be.

This is it, I thought to myself, this is the end. I finally got somebody who

loved me for what was on the inside and now we were going to be ripped away from

each other. I finally became the girl that my parents thought I had always been

and now we were going to die with them thinking I was a fraud. There were so

many things that I still wanted to do in life! I wanted to graduate highschool,

and then college. I wanted to travel the world and eventually marry someone

(possibly Crash) and live on a farm- and then, most importantly, I wanted to

have a little girl of my own. But now I was never going to get the chance to do

any of those things...

I was never going to get the chance to show the world who Nikola Sara Ryan was.

And I was never going to get the chance to appreciate my parents and tell them I

was sorry...

(Johanna's POV)

This is what the end looks like. When I was first Turned, I had originally

pictured a futuristic world with flying cars, and then the world would just

spontaneously explode or open up and swallow itself. I didn't think it would

happen seventeen years after I had gotten my entire world...

I had my sun and stars, Gabriel, for about twenty-three years but I only had a

reason for the Earth to spin for seventeen. I knew now that as long as they

lived I would be happy. I would die in a nanosecond for them to live. No doubts,

no questions, no regrets. No parent should have to see their child die...

(Drew's POV)

I never imagined that something like this could be my fault...

But it was.

I don't know what we did to deserve this... Where did I go wrong? I guess there

are so many times this fate could have been applied to us. Was it when we went

to Mexico behind our parents backs?! Or when I started dating Erika and found

out she was lying to me?! Was it all the times I snuck out of home and didn't

return until sunrise?! Or how about constantly disobeying Gabriel and Johanna?!

Yeah. That seems like a good place to start. Or was it when and how I learned

the truth?! But then I would be blaming my father, and he didn't do anything

wrong...its all my fault.

Its my fault that our parents, Gabriel and Johanna, will die in mine and

Nikola's arms. Its my fault that the family is in this position. The wounds that

are taking my father's life now...should be taking mine....

We were all going to die tonight.

I wish I had been the boy my parents thought I was. I wish that I had had the

nerve to talk to them about what I was going through. I wish that I could get

the chance to apologize and to tell Gabriel who his son really is.

I wish...I had more time.

-Drew