Category : Stories

Sub Category : YoungAdult

The Last Words She Spoke. Part 2.
a fictional novel by Elizabeth M.



2 - Demons and Memories.


It was consuming me to not tell Nick about my personal demon. No, this isn't take a turn into a ghost story and Sam, Dean, Jack and Castiel aren't showing up at my door to exorcise my house. Calm down Supernatural fans.

My demon was a spinal tumor. It was growing in my lower back and was scheduled to be removed with surgery a week after the shooting, but it couldn't happen because... Well, I was dead. The doctors said that if it wasn't removed, it would either cause permanent paralysis or even death.

I never told Nick about it. Obviously. Now, I know that he knows. After I was taken to the hospital, and pronounced dead, he sped away in his car to our place. He sat on that sacred stone and cried. Then he remembered my cursed words.

He read the entire book, learning I had had a crush on him since 7th grade until he asked me out in the middle of sophomore year.

He learned that the girls at the table by the exit in the cafeteria had always been bitches to me.

He learned that my parents got divorced because of my younger brother.

He learned.... Everything I wanted him to. And everything I didn't.

I didn't want him to know about my spinal tumor. Or my parents' divorce. Or my brother. Or the bullies. I didn't want him to know about... Him.

Nick couldn't know what I knew about him. But know he does. And he's angry. He's also sad. He's so sad that he won't go to school. He won't leave his room. He won't stop watching report after report on the shooting. He won't talk. Not to anyone.

But things will change. He will get over me. He will find a new girlfriend. They'll get married. Maybe have kids. Grandkids.

That will make him happy. But it will still hurt me. I still love him, dead or alive. But I will also be happy, only because he is.

I remember, once, Nick, Delayne, Amalie and Lucas surprised me on my fifteenth birthday with something huge. That was the day Nick asked me out.

He sat behind a big curtain with his acoustic and played one of my favorite songs - Between The Raindrops. And after he sang, he looked me in the eyes, ever so longingly.

"Skylar, will you go out with me?" Nick asked.

"After that..." I started. "How could I say no?"

With that, my new boyfriend kissed me sweetly, and took my hand in his. It wouldn't be the last time he would do that.

I loved having those four as my friends. We always celebrated each other's birthdays and never forgot what the other wanted. They remembered important dates of big events in an other's life. They helped with homework, dating and life problems. We had each others backs.

But not on April 18th.