Drop dead

Chapter 17. It's over now

Elizabella

I know where he'll be tonight. It's the anniversary of my death. Funny how he actually pretends to mourn me. He was always a good actor, he could have made a career out of it.

I guess my brother will finally get the chance to see his dear sister again, too ba it will be right before he dies. I wonder how his wife will react. Will she even care? Surely by nowise knows she married a murderer.

"I'm not going to let you marry him. It's a disgrace! You are not marrying him"

"You don't get to choose who I marry. I'm going to marry him and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm going"

"We are going home now before you bring any more shame"

"No! Let go of me! I love him. I want nothing to do with you. I hate you!"

I remember the days we used to get along, and I'd always get him out of trouble. But not this time.

I don't remember when I started hating him or why. I don't remember when he started having murderous desires either.

Probably around the same time I wanted to get away from my family. My Mother drank herself to sleep, Dad was always at the pub or on tour or somewhere and my brother was intolerable and a bully.

Valentina is drawing something, maybe a picture of her happy family and then a picture of us. And then I can burn them and see if she cries. She's gone weird and so now it's harder to mess with her. I put a dying fish in front of her and she didn't even flinch. Or save it. I had to save it in the end which was not the point.

I threw meat at her and she didn't even mind that she's vegetarian.

I bet if I stabbed her she wouldn't care.

Miles might and as much as I hate him because he's annoying, he'll get so much worse if stab his only friend.

I should thank Paige for dragging him off to help with her plans at school. My headache is not as bad today. Which is surprising.

I can still feel the spot where he hit me with a brick over and over again.

I want to stab Valentina because she's meant to be the moral one; the sane one. The one who says we can't kill people. But she hasn't. When I tell her of my plans she just hums and nods along. Happily agreeing to help kill someone.

It's intolerable. Unbearable. It's scary.

I don't like the new Valentina. She's even worse than the old one. I just want things to go back to the way it was before. before she met her brother and went into this depressive state.

Ideally, I'd go back to before I died and run away with him early, before my brother found out

"What? You think you can just abandon us?"

Before the boy I was going to marry was sent to jail. I should have broken up with him, then I wouldn't have died and he wouldn't be in jail.

"How could you be so damn selfish"

I can't wait to see the fear in his eyes tonight, for him to beg for his wretched life.

It's just over two hours away, and the other two better be here or they'll ruin everything and I can't have it ruined. I just won't.

With Valentina done being the sensible one and is starting to lean toward homicidal maniac, I've got to pick up the slack.

I hope Miles has homework to do, otherwise the whole point of school is ruined.