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#25.I'm Coming

ALMA'S POV

Mom calls me down to dinner right after I finish writing my letters, around 5:00. We eat, then I offer to do dishes.

Mom thanks me, then heads up to her room. I finish washing and drying them, putting them away. I walk up to moms room.

"Hey mom?" I say as I open the door. She on laying in her bed, Skyping with dad.

"Oh! Alma! Come here, I was just about to satmy goodbye to your dad and his friends." She says. I plop down in her bed, and wave to dad. One of dads friends whistle, earning him a playful punch from dad.

"Hey, I was going to go to bed. I just stopped in so that I could say that no matter what happens, I'll always love you."

Mom and dad says they love me too, and then I head off to bed.

I pretend to go to sleep around 10:00, then around 1:00 am, I decide to finally do it. I make sure my mom isn't awake, not that she would be at this hour, and grab a  rope out of the basement.

RUBEN'S POV

I finish the letters around 4:00, just as mom calls Mr down to dinner.

"Hey, how was school today?" She asks as I walk into the kitchen.

"Fine." I don't really want to tell her how my day went, she'll make a huge fuss out of it.

We sit down to eat, andafter we are done, I offer to do the dishes.

"Oh honey, you dont have to do that!" She says as I pick up the dishes. "You did them yesterday!"

"Mom, stop. I insist. Go to your room and read that book that you've been wanting to read for the past week." She looks at the dishes, then looks at me. "Go." I tell her sternly. "I've got these." She sighs, then kisses my cheek and goes to her room.

I start doing the dishes, rinsing each dish before I put it into the dishwasher. I finish, start the dishwasher, and walk up to moms room. She's laying in her bed, reading.

"Yes Ruben?"

"Mom, I just wanted to let you know, that no matter what happens, I will always love you."

"I'll always love you too Ruben." She says smiling. "Now can I get a hug from my little guardian angel?" She says, holding her arms out. I give her a hug, and then go to my room, pretending to be asleep. I get up around 1:00 am, and try to decide how to end my life.

I don't want the gun, that would bring the cops and wake up the neighbors.

No knife, that's too much blood. So I guess I'll go with the necklace of rope.

I get a call at 1:03, from Alma. I pick up without thinking. "Hello?" I say, then cringe as my voice cracks. I hear sobbing on the other side.

"Alma?" I ask, automatically worried even though she cheated. "What's wrong?"

"I'm saying goodbye Ruben." She manages to say though the sobs. "I can't handle life anymore and no one loves me anyway."

"Alma, don't say that!" I say, startled, and kinda happy that she called me first about this. "A bunch of people love you! Your mom, your dad..." I trail off.

"Ya, but the person that I care about most doesn't love me. H-he." She starts sobbing even harder.

"Who is this Alma?" I ask.

She just cries harder. "I-i-i-it's y-y-y-you." I start crying too.

"Alma, I love you with all of my heart!" I exlaim.

She stuttering so badly that I can barely understand her. "T-t-t-t-then w-w-why d-did you b-b-b-break up with m-m-me? F-f-f-for no reason?" She asks.

"It wasn't for no reason Alma!" I pratically scream. "You fucking cheated on me!"

"With w-who?!" She yells back.

"With fucking Jimmy, that's who!" I say, lowering my voice, because it hurts too much to scream at her.

"I never cheated Ruben."

"I saw the goddamned photo evidence. Don't fucking lie to me." I whisper dangerously.

"He kissed me! I was trying to push him away! Once he finally stopped, I gave him a bloody fucking nose." She goals back. I moan. How could I have been so stupid.

"Stay there, I'm coming over." I say, hanging up.

ALMA'S POV

Stay there, I'm coming over." He says, then hangs up before I can reply. I don't want him to come over. I was going to tell him about it. In person. So that this wouldn't happen. I didn't know...

Plink

I open the window and he climbs in, automatically wrapping me in a hug. I hug him back, needing someone to hold onto. I feel my shoulder become wet, and I look at him.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"I was about to take my own life too Alma." He whispers, holding my face. I hug him again. We finally let go of each other, walking over to my bed.

"I was going to tell you today, as soon as you picked me up. But you didn't pick me up, and you ignored me all day...." I trail off.

"I know, I should have talked to you first Alma." He says. "But the pain was too much, and I couldn't stand to talk to you after you did something like that."

"I would never do something like that. I-i love you too much." I say. "I'd tell you if I ever stopped loving you. I'd never cheat."

"I love you too Alma. Way too much to ever cheat."

And in this moment, I want him more than I ever had. More than the first time he kissed me during knee of our tutoring sessions. More than when he first told me he love me. And more than when we almost did it, after he found out about my scars.

And as I look into his eyes, so full of love, and pain, and fright, I know, I know that I truly love him. That I would never be able to stop.

And I realize that I want to spend the rest of my life with him, no matter how short or long.

RUBEN'S POV

I look into Alma's eyes, and realize that I don't ever want to lose her. Never.

And I realize that I want to be with her until I die, whether it be in thirty minuets, or thirty years.

And I want her more than I ever had, but instead of ripping of her clothes like I want to, I give her a quick kiss, and yell her to go to sleep, and that I will forever be her guardian angel.