🥀Crystallight 2: A Family Reunion🥀

🥀Chapter 22: I Did It..?🥀

~~~~~~~~~Iv's POV~~~~~~~~~

I felt...

Tired...

Empty...

Every inch of me ached in pain...

I could barely even move...

It was hard for me to breath, my lungs burned whenever I tried...

Was this... really the end for me...?

I want to give up...

It all hurts too much...

So much...

"Get up, Iv.." A voice spoke from around me, but I refused to look.

"Are you really gonna go down like this..?" The voice spoke again, this time sounding disappointed.

I let out a sigh, which that alone felt like my lungs shrunk by a lot. "I'm done with this... I can't... I-it hurts too much..."

"You would never think that way.. All that you've done is because you've always been too stubborn to die.. Doesn't matter what may happen, you always get right back up.."

"Not this time..."

"Oh..? And why is this time any different than the others..?"

"Because..." My sentence ended there. The more I thought about it, the more they were right. This was no different than from all those other times.

My mind went over to my family, my friends.. I couldn't leave them..

I bit my lip, and although it took a lot of my strength, I managed to open my eyes. A familiar figure stood beside me, looking down at me with gentle eyes.

The other me, the one like a silhouette, the one with the orange veins and hollow glowing eyes. It started me for a moment when she reached her arm out at me, offering me to take it.

I waited a few seconds to gather my strength before nervously grab her hand; to my surprise, it was.. cold..

She pulled me up to my feet, a hand on my shoulder to keep my balance. Pain came from every part of me, and I could barely bare it as I hissed through my gritted teeth.

More surprising, she gave me a kind smile. "See..? You're still as stubborn as a mule.."

"Why are you helping me..?" I asked, still a bit unsure about all that happened.

She only chuckled. "Why not..? I am just you in another form, I have nothing against you.." She raises a hand in front of me.

I stared at it for a while before pressing the palm of my hand against hers. "Thank you.."

"No need to thank me.. Now, are you ready to wake up..?"

Taking a deep breath, I shook my head, and she placed a tight grip on my hand.

At the sudden pain, I let out a gasp as my eyes fully shot open. I tried to calm my breathing as I looked around, finding myself in my room. My gaze quickly went to my hands, feeling the strange power she brought at my fingertips.