A date with death

"Yeah I'm the grim reaper"

Don't know who read the first version but it was absolute shit, so thanks for trying it again, I hope this is better. -CRLake
-xXx-
I brush my hair back before placing headphones over my ears and pulling my hood over my head to block out the rain,
I turn and twist the door handle, it turning only slightly to show it was locked. I walk off the steps and down the street.
I walk into Target and grab a basket.
I hum along to my music as I look for the items on my list when I hear loud popping through my headphones and people start running past me. One person knocks into me sending both of us to the ground.
"What's happening?" I ask
"Someone's shooting in here!" And they leave as fast as they knocked into me, realization hits me like a ton of bricks,
"Someone's shooting in here, I could die" I get up and run with the group towards the exit as the shots get louder and quicker, someone hits me in the back making me fall forwards as we all stumble out the doors.
I try to push myself up but stabbing pain shot from my back to the rest of my body.
"What the hell?" I touch my back and the blood spreads to my hand.
Then more pain in my left leg making me scream.
"Shut up!" Someone yells, I look up, it's the gunman, he's tall and blond with a letterman jacket, probably some school's popular jock and he's pointing his gun at me.
"Y-You don't don't have to d-do this." He starts laughing.
"Shut up! You don't know me!"
He cocks the gun
"Why are you, why are you doing this?" I choke out a sob.
"No one will remember you but everyone will remember me!" He pulls the trigger and then black.
                   -xXx-
I groan waking up with the worst pain, it feels like someone's beat me with a baseball bat all over.
"Finally! I thought you'd never wake up!" I groan again looking around at my surroundings and for the source of the voice,
"W-What?" I sit up rubbing my eyes, a tall boy with short black hair is sitting at my desk in my room.
"Good morning sunshine!" The source says standing up and moving to my bed, sitting at the edge.
"Who are you?" I ask
"Well, do you want the long answer or the short answer?" He turns around and grabs a water bottle from nowhere and hands it to me, I notice he's wearing a few rings. I break the seal off the cap and drink.
"Short."
"Okay, my name is Cody, and I'm what do you call it now? The grim reaper? Yeah I'm the grim reaper." He didn't look like the normal grim reaper, he had his hair gelled back but it was still messy, he was wearing ripped jeans with a white t shirt.
"Grim reaper? I died?" He moves a hand through his hair and sighs.
"Yes darling, you died, you died in a mass shooting, that's why your head and back hurt," he leans back against the wall still sitting on my bed. "however you died is what's going to hurt."
"Can I get back?"
"You wanna go back?! Don't make me laugh, I'm not supposed to!," He composes himself "why do you wanna go back?"
"My family, my life, I'm only 22, I wanna go back." Cody stands up slowly and starts pacing.
"I mean you could but there's a catch darling." He says with a smirk and I know this can't end well.
"What?"
"I come with you."
"Why?"
"I want to see the world." He says simply shrugging his shoulders
Okay, so I could live again but be attached to him, probably forever, or I could die and never see my family again.
"Okay, how do I get out of here?"
Maybe I could ditch him somewhere.
"Down the hall, it's labeled." He steps back and gestures wide towards the door. I stand up and walk out the door into a hallway, it's identical to my college, with the same ugly grey carpet and yellowing lights.
I walk down the hall and hear his footsteps pad behind me. I look behind me, he's barefoot and right behind me.
"Don't worry sweetheart, I'm still here." I see him smirk before I turn back around.
The only thing different about the hallway is there are three extra hallways, the first hallway is labeled "Life", the second is "Death" and the third is labeled "Reincarnation"
I turn into "Life" and it gradually gets pitch black.
-xXx-
The black suddenly become bright light as my surroundings change into a hospital room and Cody is sitting in a chair next to the bed. The bed squeaks as I sit up.
"Good morning again sunshine." He says smiling.
"Morning? How long have we been here?" My head and back are in a dull pain and my left leg is in a cast.
"Well we've only been here for a few minutes, according to the doctors we've been here for a week." I'm about to respond when we hear a knock on the door then a blonde female doctor walks in.
"Glad to see you're awake. How are you feeling?" She asks looking at the machines.
"Good, do you know when I'll be able to go home?"
"We'll have to keep you one more day now that you're awake for observation then you can go home." She leaves after checking my IV and any other tubes in my body,
Okay that doesn't seem so hard, only 24 hours.
"You wanna do something to kill time?" Cody asks
"Sure." I remove the blankets as Cody gets up to grab a wheelchair and wheels it next to the bed.
His hands go around my waist as he picks up all my weight and sits me in the wheelchair, moving my legs like a doll and I guess we both had the same thought
"You're like my personal doll." He puts the IV bag on the pole above the wheelchair handle and wheels me out.
"So doll what do you want to do?"