Saving His Broken Mate

Chapter 5.

Hero POV:

New door, new memory. I've been through maybe a dozen of doors already, each holding different feelings, fears, secrets that I surly don't have the right to see or know. I'm being a horrible mate right now, for invading the darkest parts of her mind. I'm glad though because I have now reached the end of the hallway, and so far I have not witnessed anything of her being intimate with anyone of any sort.

Looking at the last door, I see how it resembles the one in which Tessa was held behind. But this one is different in the way that it's rusted, dirty and seems to be thicker. There is no lock for which I am happy. When I grip the handle, it feels as if I just stuck my hand in a bucket of lava, no worse than lava. I can't even explain it. The pain and fire rushed and shook throughout my body, it engulfed me in a range of emotions as well.

I was overwhelmed by immense sadness, excitement, happiness, fear and... death.

Instantly I know this is where the key to her door. Instead of trying to open the door again, I walk up and stand right in front of it, "listen Jo, please, I need you to let me in. I want to help you, so if you have the ability, can you please let me through this door?" I ask out into the space around me.

I wait a few moments, nothing. I'm about to back up and start ramming into the door, when I hear the sound of a lock being unlocked.

Without me even touching it, the door swings wide open. I expect to get met with another bright colored light, but instead I'm greeted with darkness. Pitch black darkness. Around me all the doors in the hallway disappear, a force shoves me into the darkness.

Opening my eyes, I am met with the sight of the back of a car seat. The drivers seat in particular. I look down to see that I have a seat belt on as well, I try unbuckling it but it won't budge. Looking over, I see Josephine with a wide smile looking out her window.

"Hurry up dad! We have to get to my recital!" Jo exclaims.

Hearing chuckles from the front, I see both of Jos and Kats parents there laughing. Jos dad looks back at her, "sweetie-" her dad starts but is cut off by a loud honk.

We all look to the front to see a large semi coming our way. I whip my head to Jo, "Jo!" I call out but she doesn't hear me. I try and grab her, but my hands go right through.

No! No! No!

With tears streaming from my eyes, I feel my body jerk and flip. Of course I can't feel any of this though, because it isn't real... for me at least. But Jo felt this crash.

Opening my eyes, a wave of nausea passes over me but quickly goes away. Looking around, I'm laying on the pavement but the car is nowhere in sight. In front of me sits what I'm guessing is Jos high school where she was going to be preforming. I get up and make my way inside, immediately seeing the preforming arts center. (A/n: I actually have a preforming arts center in my school, it's basically a theater)

Opening the doors to the space, I see that all the lights but the spotlight is turned off. The spotlight is pointed onto the stage where a chair with a saxophone on top of it, sit. I walk up the side stairs up to the stage. Walking to the chair that holds the saxophone, I see a envelope sitting on the instrument.

I pick it up and notice how light it is. It doesn't seem like there's a key inside of this. Ripping it open and quickly taking the letter out, I notice the words 'It's All My Fault'  written on it.

But at the bottom of the page it says:

Key: It's not your fault

That's the key? The assurance that what happened wasn't her fault?

Realizing that I quickly make my way out of the theater, I am instantly back right in front of the doors in which my Josephine is held. I bang on the door, "Josephine baby! It wasn't your fault, none of it! You weren't driving the car nor we you driving the semi that was on the wrong side of the road being driven by a drunk driver! Please, please, please!" I repeat the last word over and over again.

I fall in when the door swings open, expecting Jo to be in front of me when I look up; I soon realize I am wrong.

I look up and see that on the other side of the theater are another set of doors, Josephine stands in front of them.

She looks back at me, "thank you Hero." She whispers with tears streaming down her face and opens the doors. A blinding light over comes me as I see her disappear through them.

I startle and open my eyes just to see that Jo is gone. WAIT! She's gone!

I feel Hardin grow angry as do I. I don't realize that I'm destroying the room until I feel a pinch in my neck and everything goes black.

Note From Author❤️:

Double update who? Hahaha. Any who, who expected this to happen?

What happened to Jo? Hmmm.

Tell me your theories.

You know you love me xoxo,
Zoë