Even After Death by Lilting Champ

In the Miller residence, the man on the bed moved his fingers.

Then, he shouted, “Liv!” Opening his eyes, he sat up and looked around him in terror.

Janice sighed in relief.

“You’re finally awake.

You’ve been unconscious for three whole days.” Ethan’s memories were still stuck at the beach.

He hastily asked, “Mom! Liv, did you find Liv?” Janice’s heart ached.

She didn’t dare tell him the ending.

“Ethan, please prepare yourself for this.

Olivia is… She is…” “No, that can’t be! Liv can’t be dead!” Ethan couldn’t accept the truth.

He got out of bed bare-footed and then ran outside the door.

“Liv, where are you? Are you avoiding me? Liv, stop hiding!” Ethan searched the place, feeling desperate and lost.

He walked into the bedroom on the first floor.

Everything in the room remained the same as when Olivia left.

The clean bedding was neatly folded.

The flowers in the vase were the ones picked from the yard a week ago.

heads drooping as

the

lay open on the page she

same in the room, but Olivia was no

door to the yard and went

a wheelchair there, along with flowers that

in the garden while shouting anxiously, “Liv, where are you? I’m begging you, please just

swear, I’ve repented

for you to come back.” His feet had turned bloody from getting cut by the stones,

how long he had

the end, he knelt under the

his finger, at the spot where

the ring had completely disappeared from his

Footsteps rang

shouted, “Liv!” He whipped his head around, but the

“Stop looking.

played a video on his

must have been footage taken from a surveillance

screen, Olivia took off her ring

she walked slowly into the depths of

had never once

resolved

covered her head,

had gotten better, but he had no idea that it was just an act

still left in the

leave him in this