Bestfriends Shouldn’t Know How You Taste

Chapter 72

Pain. That’s all I felt, slicing through my entire body like  shockwaves. This wasn’t regular pain but excruciating. I  wanted it to stop, I wanted it all to stop.

I hear voices, unfamiliar calling out to me. They tell me  to stay with them but I feel myself slipping away. Pain. I  was in too much pain. My heart hurts, my body feels  numb. I can’t move.

I felt like I was floating, not on water but high above the  sky. It felt like how I imagined a baby bird learning to fly  for the first time.

Was I dying?

I couldn’t tell. If I was, why does it feel so peaceful? Why  do I want to stay? Why aren’t I fighting to go back to my  family? Had I had too much?

I could see nothing, plain, white, blank. Why is there  nothing? Is this what they call the light? Heaven?

I feel it then. A powerful electric force on my chest. My  heart tries, I feel it. My chest lifts, my eyes and mouth  stay shut.

I want to scream, I want to tell them that they should  leave me. I was in peace.

But was I really? I was alone, there was no Blake. No  Arden, no mom or dad, no Ryan, Rosalie or Liam. There  was no uncle Luke, Noel or aunt Rose. There was  nothing. I was alone.

There it goes again another zap to my chest. It feels  uncomfortable, like a magnet hitting metal. My chest

lifts again as I hear them speak. Angels? No it couldn’t  be.

Perhaps I wasn’t really dead yet, I was in between. That’s  when I hear him as I succumb to the feeling of loneliness.  His voice, the one I love, Blake, he was there.

You better fight for us Ley.

I’m not leaving you.

Come back to us Ley, come back to me.

I need you. We need you.

I love you.

It was like an echo. One I heard over and over until a new  feeling envelopes me. I needed to fight. I can’t stay here,  it was not my time yet. I needed to go back to my family,  I needed to go back to Blake.

Clear. The voice is clearer now as I feel the electric  feeling on my chest again. It goes straight to my heart, a  small pound, then two, three.

Fight Ley.

Four, five.

She’s coming back! A man’s voice shouts.

Were they talking about me? Did I do it? Did I fight? I

certainly hope so, I don’t want to disappoint anyone.

The white fades, it’s blurry at first but then images, no,

memories bombard my mind. “Now Ley, aren’t you a bit

too innocent for these books?” He had smirked at me

then in a mocking way but I could see the hidden desire.

Why hadn’t I noticed it before?

The memory moves and another pops up. “I told you I’d

catch you.” He smiled down at me.

The memory fades and is replaced with the image of

mine, he swiftly

molds his warm

hummed through

to my toes. Our

memory fades and another resurfaces.

about lastnight.” He had whispered

me.

me Ley?” The first time

him do what we

to do.

make me forget.” It was

remember feeling safe in

cruel

F*cking love you Ashley. I always

honest I figured that out after

off of rotten eggs in the ninth grade.”

seen that we had fallen way

back out now?

out on

nervous he was when he asked me but I

had gotten confused. No

done

make love to

never regretted telling him that

ready. Ready

want to feel you Blake. Inside

he

it felt to be connected together.

connected

bliss, it was

until I see

Ryan enter the cafeteria. “Are

entire day?” His voice

form close to

another surface. Anger, I had

“Leave me alone

me leaving him there

me, face in pain. “I really

you one last

starts beating fast, pound, pound. “I

His eyes rolled back

piercing scream.

Distress. Anguish.

Heartache.

out in the memory.

vanishes and

Where is this?

a house, that much

of the doorway looking outside.

pulls up.

my hands lift to rest on

shocked. I am

there is a diamond ring on my finger.I am

when I hear a car door slams

is

with a happy smile on his face.

golden

into his arms.

placing a palm