Melting Ice

Chapter 15

Xander

Every minute brings another sea of tears. Sometimes, I try to hold them back but that creates a tsunami in my eyes. I tell myself that I have to be strong, for Kayla. She can't be strong right now but I can. Kayla always looks the same when I see her, the same plain gown  covering her cut body. Everybody is always with me whenever I visit her, and I really wish I could have a minute alone with her. Just to tell her how I feel about her. You see, I really like Kayla and I mean like-like her. According to my judgement, she feels the same way. We hold hands so I'm guessing that she like-likes me but it's only a guess, things could change but it's pretty mean to act like we are together when she has eyes for someone else...

"Xander!", calls a voice, awakening me from my day dream, "Come with me, now!". It's just Cato;before I have time to react, I'm being dragged back into Kayla's room.

"She has 12 hours to wake up. Do something!", he says. God, bit much pressure!

        Cato left the room to go back to Clove so now I'm figuring out what to do.

"Kayla, you really need to wake up. Like right now. Please?", I say. Okay, that was crap, let me try again, "It's Xander, your best friend. I don't know if you can hear me but I think you should know that I really like you. I-I think I love you. Do you maybe think that you could love me to?". Better...

     I manage to say with her all night and all morning on my own. Her family don't want to see her as she dies so they said goodbye last night and it was emotional. Boys don't cry, I say to myself, I must not cry. She has 10 minutes to wake and she isn't showing any signs what so ever.

"If I kiss you...will you wake up?", I ask and swear I heard a sigh or a movement or something. Maybe she is my sleeping beauty and I'm her prince.

     As I lean in, I remember that I have never kissed a girl...first time for everything I guess! I close my eyes and gently touch her cold lips. At first, it feels good but then it feel amazing! All the energy inside me feels like it is on this kiss and for a second, I though she kissed back.

"I-I love you Kayla. Wake up, please just for me, Xander", I cry as the heart monitor slows down.

Kayla

I can hear all these voices around me, some I know and some I don't.

    When I open my eyes, I'm back in district 2.

"Hello Kayla", says a beautiful voice. I see a beautiful teenager with long golden locks of hair that could only belong to my cousin, Maya.

"Maya!", I exclaim, "What is going on?".

"You must make an important decision. Follow me". I follow Maya into a door that brings us I to a long white hallway. "We don't have much time, you must choose quickly".

"Choose what?", I ask. Am I dead?

"You can join me in heaven forever or you can go back to Panem. The choice is yours", Clara tells me.

"H-how do I choose?".

"Follow the hallway and you will see two rooms, choose one".

"I need to go back and finish something off", I say, "I will see you again Maya!",I run to her hug tightly.

"I will be waiting". The corridor is shorter and it seems. To my right is a meadow full of flowers and Willow trees. Maya is standing there along with Primrose and Ryan, all dressed in white. On my left is all my family and Xander. Must...kill...Xander. I see Cato and Clove, evil people. I must get rid of them. Before I go, I wave to Clara and then step into a dark hole. Cool air swishes around me and drops me into a bed, I think.