The end of Forever
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web. I printed out a picture, that I'm going to frame of the girl.” She said, digging in her purse for the picture of me.
She pulled out the picture, looked at it, then looked at me. She screamed, both her hands over her mouth. Then she pulled me close to her for a big hug, crying joyful tears into my shoulder.
I smiled up at her, “I didn't know news spread that fast”
She smiled back, “And I didn't know I would get to meet the hero of the world. But I bet you have better things to do then stand here hugging me, now go, a young girl like you must have many things to do.” She said, giving me a little push.
“Thanks it was a pleasure meeting you!” I said, walking toward the time machine.
I heard a gunshot, “Ya! Yaa! Ya! Time to die, sissies!” A drunken man drove up in his car, shooting anyone he saw.
It was one thing to convince a non-drunken man to drop his gun, but a drunken man won't listen. I was just about to give up, when everyone surrounded him, took his gun, broke it, and ran back to the family member he shot. Only then did I realize, the end of forever is over. For now.
It's all over. And now I realize it would not be boasting to call myself a hero. Before I had always wondered who I am. What personality. I am a hero.
“I am a hero.” I whispered again, with a small smile.
I felt a light tap on my shoulder, “Yes you are.” Courtney said, handing me a card and gift.
Wide eyed, I opened the card.
I was in shock. Before when I overheard her talking with Amy. She was just reading aloud what she had written in the card, for me! I saw another card peeking out of the envelope, and it was the card from Amy!
I opened my mouth to speak, when Courtney said, “No thanks needed, open your gift, and by the way we saw you spying on us writing the cards,” She giggled as my face reddened, “We were looking for you when Amy suddenly turned on me, and ran away. I should have picked my friends better. Melody your a true friend, and the best friend ever. Now open your gift.”
Speechless, I unwrapped the gift. I gasped in shock. In my hands I held half of a golden heart locket. It said True on the bottom, and Be on the top, right at the edge. Courtney pulled out her half from the locket. Hers read, Friends on the bottom, and st on top. We put the two halves together and it read,
Best
True Friends
“Oh Courtney you didn't have to-!” I started.
“Yes I did, your the best friend ever, and I want everyone to know it. I'm lucky to have such a great friend, don't thank me, just hug me!” She said.
I hugged her, and cried, “Courtney, your a hero too.” I said, “A friend hero.”
“Hero's” She said, linking arms with me, “We're two hero's in a pod.”
I laughed, “That makes no sense!” But honestly, I didn't care.
Years later:
I sat in the empty field, full of dandelions and sunflowers. This field was where the motel had been. Memories rushed through my head. Courtney had passed away, not to long ago, from cancer. I wore the sunflower crown she wove me a few days before she died. The sunflowers were all dead and soggy. But I would never ever give my crown away. Not for the world.
Before Courtney died, I sat at her bed, crying that I should be the one dying. Crying that she deserved to live more than I. Crying that nobody but her cared about me, when she had so many friends to live for.
She only smiled and said, “You are like a sunflower. Stupid people see you as a dandelion, as a weed, because they didn't look close enough. They looked from miles away. But the lucky people that look closer, see that you are a flower. Only the truly lucky and smart people can see that, but it's those people that matter most.” Then she closed her eyes, and never opened them again.
I looked up at the bright sun. Sometimes it's hard to come out of the shadows, and into the sun, but it's the only way to grow. It took me years to realize that. But now I know I can never forget it either.
Run Away