Chapter 8

I woke up after my strange dream about angels.  I felt like I was floating.  My body was full of elation.  I wanted to sing and dance.  Everything was just perfect.  I looked over and saw Sophie talking to Lucas.  I ran over and told them how much I loved them.

Lucas took my hand, pulled me close, and gave me a kiss filled with so much love that I thought I might explode.  I never wanted him to pull away, but I knew I couldn’t make it last forever.  I had other things to see to.  I stared into his beautiful blue eyes and whispered “I love you, too.”  I only wish I had had the chance to let him know that before he was killed.  I wish I had spoken the truth of my feelings before my own mother murdered us.  She murdered both of us, and she got away with it.

I turned to Sophie.  She just stared at me, a bright smile enveloping her beautiful face.  I ran to her, tears streaming down my face already.  I pulled her to me and held her in a hug.  “I missed you so much.  Why did you do that?”

Sophie looked at me.  “Kairi, I didn’t want to hurt anyone….  It’s just that mom had been… She hit me, Kairi….  I didn’t know what to do.…  I… I’m so sorry.”  She had also begun crying and wrapped me in a hug as well.  We stayed like that for what seemed like hours.  We held each other and cried, unbearably happy to see each other again.  We knew that we would never have to hurt each other again, as long as we… Um… Died, since we were definitely not alive.

No one knew my mother had killed those people in the hotel that day.  She fled to Ohio, leaving everything except a few hundred dollars behind.  My mother died soon after; she had no money, no food, and no shelter.  She died alone, like Sophie.  The only thing is, Sophie didn’t deserve that.  Sophie deserved the best, and that’s what she’ll always get from now on.