Short Stories

...Till You Drop

Days have past ever since the incident and the group of dealers never showed their faces again.Lia and I grew closer to say.Maybe I even developed feelings but I don't think I have.

I walked to the classroom and saw Lia waiting for me.
"Sup" Lia said
"Sup Queen of the Masses" I said smirking
"Its already a week and yet still no new name?" She said acting shocked
"I can't really think of one" I said
"Eh Ill get used to it" She said and she and I talked for what seemed like hours but it was only 30 mins,guess when you talk to someone and have infinite topics time seems like a dream.

The bell rang as usual.She and I kept on talking but when our teacher came in we shut up and another day at hell had begun.

Hell was a private school.Tuition was high but it's doable to pay unlike other private schools that cost $300+ and have absolutely nothing and have trash ideas this one was actually perfect in a educational standpoint but in a technical standpoint it's very lacking well mostly the computers are lacking.

Fancy private schools have 2015-2018 models of computer or a last gen apple computer but for ours they still run windows 7 which is fine but the computers are dated to be 2001-2008 according to our computer teacher.

As I hater of Hell I started feeling more chill about it as well this is the only place that I can talk to Lia safely as no way in hell someone would break into a school and kill someone on the school grounds.Well knuckleheads exist.Strangest thing is the "Bullies" are actually very smart but at times they could get their emotions in the way of everything mainly their anger could end with them hitting your nose bridge.

Lia never really liked anyone using the name "Lia" to call her but I do it just to annoy her to death.What are friends for right?

The days after the incident was very hard to cope with and was awkward between Lia and I but after a while I saw that she didn't believe that I was a drug user and had debts to pay to the dealers back then.She even had this crazy idea to link our phone gps to make sure that incase either of us get in trouble we could help one another of course I accepted it I needed some way to repay her for helping me.

Everything was normal and sweet and just so happy that it seemed like a dream and I waited and waited for something to go wrong but nothing did happy,smiles,laughter went around us nothing was wrong at all.Too perfect.

I was brought out of my thoughts as Lia placed her hand on my shoulder
"Not hard right?" Lia said looking at the plan our group has decided for our Science project
"For making a simple rocket you made it complicated" I said
"Not a rocket" She said
"What?" I said
"Its a car" Elley Said
"You did kinda make it look like rocket science" Dan said
"Anyways we have the plan,the expected result,the design all we need is the materials" Lia said
"Dibs on the car frame" Dan said
"Ill go for the wheels I guess" I said
"Ill go for the 'engine' of the car" Elley said
"And I'll bring the design materials for the car" Lia said
"Sticker Lights?" Dan said smirking
"Lightning McQueen seriously?" Lia said
"Why not add them in?" I said
"Ill try" Lia said

School ended and Lia and I went out to grab lunch and talk more.We were burning through topics till both of us needed to part ways.Lia went towards her place and so did I.

Day ended normally. So did the next day and the next and the next and the next until I was walking to Lia's place to give her my gift as it was her birthday and I was talking to her over the phone.

"Its weird" I said "In a snap, time goes so quickly"
"Yeah" Lia said "Can't wait to have you over for the dinner and-"
"Hold on" I said going through an alley when a group of people covered the end and the back of the alley "I have to call you back"
"Whats go-" I hanged up and talked to the group

"Told you I don't have it" I said
"Really?" The man said "Guess we need to go"
"That easy huh?" I said
"Didn't let me finish" He said "Guess we need to go and take your shit"

Switch POV:Lia
He hanged up the phone and I immediately checked his gps and saw his position at an alleyway.I wrote down the location and called the cops.

The first hour after the call disappeared slowly
The second did the same
The third went even more slower
And fourth was too much to even take in.

The location that I marked had changed and the phone was in the bad part of town and nowhere near the place of Matt.

Fifth hour was when I realized.Matt is dead.His phone the one I'm tracking are the killers.

Sixth hour I heard the news and I reported the information I know and by the same night they were caught and sentenced to prison.

Died on my birthday too.Cops said he had a photo framed of us with our smiles holding each other like no one was watching so happy,so forgetful of the things happening around them.Too perfect.So damned perfect that I let my guard down.

End
"Perfect moments are the most painful moments as when they end you long for more even though you know they won't ever get them ever again"