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PRESENT DAY
10 days after the accident.
"You have really nice people in your life" Michael says suddenly appearing beside me, I hit him on the chest.
"You almost gave me a heart attack"
"You can't have a heart attack, at least not in this form...you're safe"
"It's just an expression"
"Okay...Elizabeth" he¬ says and oh gawd I feel warm all over hearing the way my name sounds in his thick ..is it British? accent.
"You know you can just call me Elly...right?"
"I know" he says while stuffing his hands in his coat pockets.
"What's up with the coat?" I ask him and he shrugs at me.
"It's a little chilly today.."
"Right...like you can feel the cold..."
"He brings out his gold pocket watch"
"Dude...no one uses pocket watches anymore" I say and he sighs before putting it back in his pocket.
"Four days to go Elizabeth..."
"I know" I say "I have to make the big decision, I know it seems easy but.."
"It is never easy making such decisions, going back there to face all your mistakes and bear all the consequences of your actions or choosing to leave and go to an unknown possibly better place and breaking the hearts of your family.." he says gesturing to all the people assembled together in my room-my parents, my little sister, Jasmine, Jasmine's parents and mason all sitting around talking and joking and passing boxes of pizza around. They were a little sad, yes but they were happy, they had each other, I left before and they survived- if I leave this time they'll survive but do I seriously want to leave?
"You guys seriously look alike" I hear mason comment and the others nod in the affirmative.
"Sometimes I see Katie and think she's Raquel, they are almost the same height too" my dad chimes in, my mum smiles and smacks my dad.
"Of course she looks like me Gerald ,she's my daughter...telle mére, telle fille" she says smiling while touching my sister's chin.
I turn to see Michael studying the scene and he turns to look at me and smiles at me- a real genuine smile not one of his smirks.
"What of your family?" I ask and the smile gets wiped off his face.
"I don't have a family" he says and continues studying the scene.
"You don't have anyone?"
"Well...I have co-workers that I see, once in a while and then there are the souls I reap" he says and shrugs "people like you..."
"But they don't remember you?"
"Yes...but I visit them sometimes"
"Will you visit me? If I choose to stay..." I say and look him right in the eyes.
"Always" he says and smiles at me and I smile back at him.
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September,2016.
"What do you mean, what's up?"
"You've been acting strange" Lola says sitting on my bed with a bag of chips in her hands.
"How was practice?" I ask her and she lies back on the bed.
"Gawd, I don't want to talk about it, my back hurts...don't change the subject" she says sitting up "spill"
"I'm studying!"
"I'll wait for you to finish studying" she says and I continue but feeling her gaze on me isn't helping "fine!" I say and drop my pen "what?"
"Tell me what's going on in your life...we haven't talked in a while" she says and I couldn't help but agree with her.
"Yeah...between training, tournaments and studying and our relationships and everything else, we barely have time for anything else" I say and take a chip from her bag.
"Urrgh...don't get me started on your relationship.."
"At least I don't shag my boyfriend almost every night under the guise of studying..."
"Oh...shut up!" She says and smacks my arm as I steal more chips from her bag.
"You know what we need?" She says jumping up and down on the bed.
"What?"
"A girl's night" she says grinning widely at me "we could do it Sunday" she says and she smiles sadly.
Nana White would have been turning 85 if she were still alive and considering she raised Lola- she always got kind of depressed anytime she remembers her, I squeeze her hand tightly and smiled at her.
"We could definitely do it after the memorial, Lacy and Mila will be there" lacy and Mila are my cousins from my father's side of the family, we rarely get to see them because they live in Spain- so we see them during Christmas, new years and my grandparents memorials, so they were definitely coming with their older brother, my uncle Steve and his wife, they were the only female cousins I had the rest were boys, it was family only and Lola was adopted into the family so they all treat her like one of us "we could also get my sister and Jazzy can come around after...it will be fun..." I say and squeeze her hand and she squeezes mine back. "You know...Charlie's going to be there" I say wiggling my brows suggestive.
"Oh...shut up" she says smacking my arm "you know that was a long time ago" Lola used to have a crush on Charlie one of my other cousins from my dad's older sister- her husband's English so they stay in England, when Charlie found out- he was grossed out mostly because he always thought of Lola as his family, she has gotten over her crush since then and they're close now but I still like to tease her.
"I'm with mason now"
"Does Charlie know about Mason?"
"Yes"
"Why am I not surprised?" they were practically best friends "when was the last time you skyped?"
"Yesterday"
"Hmm..."
"You know you're really good at evading my questions..." she says while lying back on my bed.
"The best" I say while lying beside her and smiling slyly at her.
YOU ARE READING
Fourteen days
Cerita Pendek"I can't tell you that but...basically this is it- normally when you die, a reaper comes and reaps you but in your case you have a choice-to stay or to come with me" he looks straight at me and smirks again "so, Miss. White- what will it be?" What w...
