Angels

Chapter 3

Falling, falling, and more falling. Would this never end? Did she want it to end? Would she meet the rock hard ground at the end? Was she really falling? So many questions ran through her mind as she plummeted into darkness. ‘I...I want Luce...’ she thought in dispair. ‘I want to be with him...I wish I had never met him,’ a dark side of her mind called out. It reached for the surface and spoke, ‘If I had never met him then I wouldn’t feel this way! It’s his fault for doing this, it’s his fault I suffer so!’ The good side took over again, ‘If I never met him then I never would have felt love. Wait...is that what this feeling is? This feeling that seems to fill me from the core by just the mere thought of him? This feeling that makes me feel so good inside that I want to burst? This is what love is.’ Just as her thoughts finished she hit the bottom. Since she had been “falling” head first, well you get the idea. She felt as if her skull shattered like her pelvis had, and her gooey brains went everywhere. Next her shoulders shattered and as if in slow motion everything else. She “watched” as her metal hips burst also, then when nothing was left she realised that she was dead.

Luce and Davied were just walking out of the room when the loud long sound of her heart machine went off. No matter how old you are or where you’re from, that meant the same thing: Death. The boys rushed back to her bed side as doctors and nurses filed in also. Some male nurses had to remove the boys from the bedside as docotors tried all the ways they could for bringing her back. None worked, but they tried over and over before they couldn’t try again. The main doctor took her small hand and felt for a pulse, seeing as there was none he looked at his watch and declared, “Time of death 11:11 A.M.” The boys got away from the nurses now and went to her side one on each.

Davied was the second to say it, “She’s dead!” He wailed into her small hand and next was Luce as an echo to Davied. They cried and cried till they couldn’t anymore. The death certificate was fixed up and all the proper procedings were taken care of. The funeral would be 3 days from then. The funeral seemed sadder then her death because it was only Luce and Davied that attended. She never made friends, and her father was long gone. All she had were those two, so the funeral and burial took no time at all. Davied looked at Luce and saw something in his eyes as her coffin was covered with dirt.

He smiled slightly and asked Luce, “You fell in love with her, didn’t you?”

His question surprised him but he answered truthfully, “Yes. I’m not sure why I did, but I know I did...”

“Did you really,” Davied asked with an eyebrow raise as if skeptical. “Did you really, truly fall for my sister, or were you just grateful for her saving your life?”

Luce couldn’t help but laugh and that surprised Davied. “She may have found me and you two may have helped me get better, but she didn’t save my life. I would have healed on my own, you helped it along quicker. She saved my vision, not my life. I loved her, do you understand me?! Her,” he yelled and grabbed Davied’s collar shaking him as he spoke. “This is my fault...” he let his collar go. He shook his head and with a straight line for a mouth said again, “This is my fault...”

Davied scoffed, “How could this possibly be your fault?! You didn’t push her down those steps, now did you? NO!”

“She knew it was hard for me to believe her story. She wanted to prove to me that she was telling the truth! If I had just been more trusting then she wouldn’t have gone up there. If I hadn’t left the light on she wouldn’t have felt the need to turn it off...It’s my fault,” he finished then doubled over and put his hand on his head trying not to cry.

Davied put a hand on his shoulder and said in a soothing voice, “It was no one’s fault but her own. She wanted to go up there, she wanted to face her past. And if that’s not true then she wanted to turn the light off or whatever her excuse was. Up in that attic was the cause of some of her suffering, she may have looked happy on the outside but you have no idea how many nights I heard her crying. How many times I caught her talking to herself about wanting to die, trying to think of something worth living for. She always came to the same conclusion though...Would you like to know what that was?” Luce nodded with out looking at him, his eyes focused on her grave. “She would always wish she was dead. The only thing she said to herself that was worth living for was keeping me company. Or staying alive so that I wouldn’t be sad. Or even thinking that a girl would find it sweet that I was taking care of her while our father was away and that girl would fall for me. She never thought about herself unless it was how much of a lost cause she was. She once, a few years back stopped eating because we had little money and little food. She made me eat to keep my strength up saying that all she did was lie around.” He stopped, remembering the times they had. “She could never go out on her own unless it was into the woods at night. She could never make friends because they would all leave her behind in the dust. Who except the ones that love her could believe her stories or abilities? She trusted you enough to tell you everything, she trusted you enough to show you her past...she must have loved you...” he stopped there and stared at her grave with Luce. Tears were rolling down both their cheeks now and Davied began to leave.

Luce stayed behind, “Go on without me...” Davied didn’t object and waited in the car. “We only spent a little bit of time together, but that didn’t stop me from falling for you. I wish I could have saved you, but I’m not that kind of angel...I wish I could have granted your wish to be ‘normal’, but I’m not that kind of angel either...I guess we angels aren’t what we’re said to be like are we,” he chuckled sadly. “Good Bye Angelo, or would it be Bad Hello? Heh, my jokes are just as horrible as yours...” he choked back sobs, “no matter what kind of creature you are you always try and laugh to keep from crying...too bad it never works.” He kissed his finger tips and touched them to the small angel carved into the headstone that had her face.

The girl Davied had been with on the night Angelo died had always been a good friend of his, and for him to do with her what he did- they were more then that. It wasn’t long before Davied asked her to marry him and she spent not even a millisecond thinking about her answer. Luce had made dinner for them that night so he was there when he asked her. Davied asked Luce to be his best man and he agreed happily though of course he was not happy. The wedding came and went and the three people lived happily, but she was always there, in his dreams. Never really there, always a phantom to torture him. Though one night was strange. He fell asleep as always but instead of going to his own “dream” scene he went to hers. His brothers and sisters were there like before, but where was she? He ran over to his family wishing to ask them where she was but instead they had other news for him.

“Lucifer! There you are! We haven’t seen you here for a while, and we had the best news for you, too,” a brother shouted giving him a hug. Confusion riddled his face but the angel went on, “She did it Lucifer! All for you, Angelo talked to father and you’re in! You can come home!”

More confusion then happiness, then confusion, “WHAT?! What are you talking about?! People never go to heaven...only angels live there! How could she have...” Nothing was registering with him.

A sister knocked on Lucifer’s head as if it was a door, “Hello! Any body in there? Look, just get your evil butt back home! Don’t you want to see her?!”

No words could name what he felt, he could say nothing more but, “I’ll leave as soon as I can.” He jumped out of bed, still Angelo’s old room he stayed in, and cleaned it up. Though he didn’t need to he packed what was his and pushed it to the back of the closet. It was still dark out and no one was around as he ripped his shirt off, spread his wings and ascended into heaven.

Davied woke before April, he always did to start breakfast, he wouldn’t ever bother to wake Lucifer though. As he passed the door he saw a note: Dear Davied and April, I am sorry but I have been called back home. I never told you that I ran away and someone found me, my family is very large and someone is always somewhere in the world. I didn’t have the heart to wake you before leaving early this morning. I thank you for your hospitality, and again apologize for leaving without the proper good bye. Fare well my friends, I will always keep you in my heart. Sincerely, Luce. Davied smiled sadly at the thought of loosing another member of his family. He shook away the sadness and would try and shake away his memory of his “brother” Luce.

Only angels could enter heaven by way of flight through a special dimensional door, that is why it was so very confusing for Angelo to have gotten in. He didn’t wish to question it because it was the two greatest things that ever happened to him. One: He was going back home and it had felt like forever and a day since he was kicked out, Two: Angelo was supposedly there and it was her that convinced his father to let him back! Was it to be the greatest day of his eternal life? That question was answered within the minute. As he stepped through the gates of heaven for what seemed the first time, a woman of unsurpassable beauty that he had seen only once before greeted him with a hug.

“Welcome home,” she said in a voice like a song, a song he had heard only once before as well. She pushed away from him and smiled warmly, no doubt about it; it was Angelo!

He couldn’t contain himself, he began to cry and held her tightly. Before he knew what he was doing they were kissing passionately and both were crying. “I thought I’d never see you again,” he cried and he pulled away from her looking her up and down.

“And I thought I’d never see you again Lucifer,” she said his name mockingly. He smiled shyly and she began to lead him away from the gates wiping tears from her eyes. “How’s my brother,” she asked after some time in a sad voice. He wasn’t sure where she was taking him but he didn’t care, she was with him!

“He’s healing...he’s not as lucky as me to be here with you I guess. He got married,” he said in a brighter voice then his previous sentence.

“Really? Wow, wish I had been there,” she said sadly. “I hope she treats him well. Wouldn’t want him to be sad forever, but who would be because of me?” Lucifer stopped and she jerked backwards into him.

“How can you even say that,” his voice was neither sad nor angry, more of an in-between. That voice scared her, “Don’t you know how much we grieved for you?! How mush we were hurting?! And you can just say that...” He shook his head in sadness, she frowned.

“I’m sorry...I always thought myself a burden on him. You never know how much someone loves you till you’re gone...” she looked away from Lucifer and started walking again. They exchanged no more words as she pushed him into a room and left him there.

It was his father’s room, “Ah Lucifer! How good to see you well! Quite an amazing girl you fell for! Truly she is!” He laughed. He had walked over to Lucifer and clapped him on the back as he spoke. “Do you know what she did,” God asked Lucifer in a surprised tone. He shook his head, he really didn’t know! “When she died, she went to that special little world she went to sometimes that was really just a playground for you all. Not sure how she got there but she did! Once they all saw her she cried to them about what happened and they brought her here. She convinced me that you aren’t such a bad guy...I never really thought you were my son, I hope you know,” he put his hands on his shoulders now. “I was only trying to teach you a lesson! Like the human way with grounding,” he smiled and gave him a hug.

“Well I forgive you? Or thank you for forgiving me? I’m not sure what to say,” Lucifer shrugged.

“Don’t say anything, just go to that amazing girl of yours and thank her! Go on,” he boomed pushing him out the door where surprisingly Angelo was waiting.

They smiled at each other and she knew that he wasn’t going to say it. It was clear in his eyes that he was thanking her. “I love you,” he said simply.

“I love you more,” she taunted back at him.

“I’ll let you think that,” he said giving her a hug and kiss.

“You’d better,” she said as they walked off and lived for eternity in Heaven.