How My Life Was Saved-Completed

Chapter Twenty-Four

I close my eyes and wait for the bullet to hit me. I hear a grunt and snap my eyes open. I see Grygh laying on the ground. "Grygh!!" I scream falling to my knees. I put pressure on the wound that is on his chest. Tears start streaming down my face. He can't die, I think to myself, he can't die. "Everything is going to be okay. Everything is going to be okay."

"Alessa," Hayden whispers pulling me away, "He's gone. The bullet hit his heart on impact killing him instantly."

"NO!!" I cry, "He's not dead."

"He's gone," Beckett whispers pulling me close to him, "He's gone."

I shove Beckett back and glare at Mr. Colton. "You monster," I scream taking a step closer. He puts his hand up and I hear the ringing start but don't worry about it. "You fucking monster. You fucking killed him. You killed your own fucking son."

I take another step forward. Someone grabs onto my arm to try to stop me but I push them back. "Alessa, don't do this," my uncle warns.

I grab a knife out of the knife block and take another step closer. "Believe me I do," I growl darkly. "Trust me I do."

"Stop walking or I will have it kill you," Mr. Colton growls.

"What are you scared of a little girl," I growl harshly, "because if so, your a fucking coward. You're about to fucking go to hell, asshole."

He looks me in the eyes and gasps. The must be going darker. I walk closer to him until I'm a few feet away. I raise the knife and throw it at him. It hits his chest right where is heart is. "You little brat," he yells as his eyes roll back.

That's when it all hits me. Grygh's dead. I just killed someone. I drop to the ground and cry. I feel all my emotions mix together. Anger, grief, hate, sadness, heartbreak, and most of all guilt.

I hear someone run this way and wrap there arms around me. "It's okay," the voice whispers, "it's going to be okay."

Three Weeks Later

I walk into the graveyard for the hundredth time this week. I still can't get over his death. I can't let him go. He died for me. I'm the one that's suppose to be dead. I'm the one that is suppose to be in that grave. Not Grygh, me.

We buried him on earth so Colton could go visit him also. Beckett won't let me be alone anymore because he thinks I'm going to hurt myself. "You doing okay?" Colton asks me for the fifth time today.

"No,"I whisper whipping away my tears, "I'm not fine. I'm the one that should be in that grave not Grygh. Mr. Colton was trying to kill me. He wanted me dead."

"Hey," Colton says, "don't think like that. Grygh saved your life. He made it so you could have a future. He wanted you to be happy. Even if he's not in it."

"But.." I start but he interrupts.

"No, stop doing that," Colton interrupts, "try to get on with your life. I'm not saying you should forget him, but you've spent every day in this graveyard hours on end. You don't realize that there's someone alive that loves you also."

I walk out of the graveyard hours later still thinking about what Colton said. I don't know what he's talking about. I was about to travel when I see Hayden standing there in a suit and holding roses. "Alessa," he whispers, nervously fiddling with the cuff of his suit, "I know that your still trying to get over Grygh's death but would you go on a date with me."

I burst out laughing. He looks down to the ground looking sad. "Yeah I'll go on a date with you," I manage to laugh out.

His head perks up immediatly with a smile on his face, "Seriously?"

"Yeah," I say smiling back.

"Then lets go," he says grabbing my arm so I could shift us to another dimension.

Two Weeks Later

My birthday is in a week from now. My birthday will also be my death day. I'm going to be turning the big eighteen. My relationship with Hayden has been doing good and getting better. "Alessa, I have a question," Hayden whispers nervously.

"You can ask me anything," I encourage, "you know that."

"Well I was wondering if you..know," he stalls.

"Hayden, please just spit it out," I say.

"Wouldyoumarryme?" he mumbles.

"What? I didn't get what you said." I ask taking a step closer to him. "Could you please slow down and say it?"

He sighs and gets down on one knee. "Alessa Jane Nealen, would you do me the honors and marry me?" he asks pulling out a ring. I feel tears start to fill my eyes. They start streaming down my face. "Alessa, is that a no."

"NO!!" I exclaim, "I mean yes, I will marry you."

I don't know why I said yes I just did. It feels right to be with Hayden though.

One Week Later

I feel like throwing up. Tomorrow I'm getting married. On my birthday. On the day that I might even die. I can't do this. I have to do this. To many things are going on. I need to go somewhere. I need to get out of my uncle's house. Then I remember, I haven't been to Careford in awhile.

I don't remember the last time I was there. I appear in the DC training room. "Drop and give me twenty," I hear Devin yell. I turn around and see Devin training a girl that looks around the age of twelve. Devin turns around and sees me. "Look who returned. Where's Grygh?"

"He's dead," I say painfully walking out of the training room.

I walk to where Grygh's old room is and walk in. I see Holen laying on the bed reading a book. "What's up?" Holen greets.

"Nothing much," I whisper, "I just thought you should know that Grygh's dead."

"Grygh's dead," Holen says standing up. He starts digging around in Grygh's side of the room and then he finds something. "Grygh said if he dies I'm suppose to give this to you. It's his journal. One of the pages in the journal though were written by his father. But the rest is written by him. But you must go before Sergeant finds out your here."

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I wake up with a smile on my face. I reach over and grab Grygh's journal. I've had it for hours but haven't opened it. I can do it. I flip open to the first page and read a letter. It reads:

Dear Alessa,

I know your probably wondering why I've left you my journal. You have this because I want you to know how I feel about you. In the passages in here it shows what we've done together and things I've done myself for you. I love you, I hope you know that. But what I want you to know is I want you to be happy even if I'm not the one to make you happy. You are very unique and different from any girl I've known. You take risks and solve your own problems. You might look to your brother and his best friend for help but you do most things yourself. Please read on.

Love,
Grygh

He wants me to be happy.