No trick, no dream. She didn't knock off the heart monitor. She didn't get back up. She was gone. Coral wasn't there anymore. Her body, once filled with life and breath, now stiff and cold with stillness and death. Just a few seconds ago, and she was fine. What had happened?
I put my head on her still chest, sobbing. I can't breathe, I can't even think. Under her shirt something hard is pushing into my forehead. I see a glimpse of a chain poking out. I give it a slight tug and a small golden cross is revealed. She is, I mean was a christian. I never even knew. I hold it in my fist and cry until I can't anymore.
The little girl who had agreed with me during class that the Royals were "butheads" and took the beating with me. The person who really convinced the people of the Block that we had somewhere to go, she convinced me. She found the village, she was the one who united us all. We conquered miles together. She loved chocolate, always chocolate. She loved outside. The trees were where she felt most at home. The girl who showed me where to find an extra loaf of bread. The girl who would sing and dance when nobody was watching, but I was watching, I was always watching.
My best friend,and only family. Coral the survivalist. When I was sick she nursed me to health. She always hated reading. She was the only person who would really always be there for me. She always was one to make sacrifices. She gave me her blanket when we were five. It was her only one. She almost froze to death that night, but said nothing for years because she knew if she told me it was her only blanket that I wouldn't take it, and I still sleep with it every night.
The fighter. The Rebel. The girl who never stopped believing in me or in life, no matter how many mistakes. The only family I really had, but I guess she wasn't anymore because my family grew.
Faith, Emma and I guess even Lilly- since families are supposed to argue a lot. My only family. Gone, like warm bread. So pure, and good, you know it's good, but never really understand how good until it's gone. Coral, the most mature of us all, and the bravest, yet still a child at heart and by name. Still a child.
The strongest girl I knew, who slipped slowly into death, locked in a room, in a hospital, far from where she should have been, where we both wanted to die. The doctors say she lost too much blood, but it can't be true she couldn't have died like that, not Coral. She was fine just a minute ago. Why? Why her? Why not ANYONE else? Coral, my sweet, sweet Coral, is gone, and she is never coming back.
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An Inch Of Infinity (Short Version)
ActionIn the near future the entire world is conquered by a group of people known as Royalties, or the Royals for short. They declared war on the planet. If you were not with them, you were against them. by the end of the 21st century the world was utter...
