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Chapter 9 - He's Back?

I wake up to see that the blurry image I saw of Mori wasn't me being delirious again it made me happy but something felt

Wrong

Is it just me again

It can't just be me

Why didn't he show up yesterday, I made him to alwaysbe by my side

Made?

No that feels ....

Wrong

Is it just my imagination that is making me feel like this

Imagination?

No it's real

Mori is real right

Wrong

Wrong 

Wrong

I count five times I have said I'm wrong that's not normal, I wouldn't call myself wrong. Is anything normal about me 

Nothing?

"Oh Lord don't tell me...."

I quickly sit up just to see that he's gone 

No how could that be possible

"No no no no no!"

"He was real I swear"

I point at the empty spot next to me like I was trying to prove to an audience that he was there, that Mori existed 

I mean how could he not be real 

"Wait why am I pointing at nothing, why am I narrating everything in my head"

"In my head"

"Maybe it was in my head, no it can't be!"

My voice was louder now desperate, my mom probably heard my voice from downstairs but she wouldn't care, why would she

"Why do I keep explaining things in my head, there's no audience or is there"

For the first time Mai realized that maybe Mori wasn't real but despite reality slapping her in the face she refused to believe it, so she desperately searched around trying to look for any trace of Mori in her surroundings but nothing then her eyes landed on the knife not just any knife but one Mori told her to keep 'for safety' or maybe that was the key to ending this nightmare, she stabbed every single artery she could remember

The Abdomen-stabbed

The Arms- stabbed

The Legs-stabbed

The Neck-stabbed

And finally the heart-stabbed

She stabbed and stabbed forgetting about the nauseous pain that was swallowing her whole and only thinking about being free from this so-called fake nightmare

But the thing, is everything was real 

The Pain-Real

TheBlood-Real

TheTears-Real

And Mori?

Fake

And so, Mori died and in her last moments her mind had only one thought, not an explanation but a thought

Finally

Her final thought wasn't of pain, suffering or regret, It was of relief 

Relief of finally ending those endless 'routines', brainless activities, her parents voices, but the one thing she would miss was Mori the only comfort in her life

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