Possessed...

[Julia Lilith Potter]

As time passed, he kept staring at the ceiling…
The sun kept rising and setting…
The wind kept blowing…
And the days just fleed away…
“Luke?”
And a voice woke him up from daydreaming…
“Can you hear me, Luke?”
“Probably…”
And he’s careless…
“Luke, you can speak!”
“Not for long…”
And she’s worried…
“Luke…I…”
“I don’t need any excuses, Alicia…”
“…Excuses?...”
“Hmm…”
Hardly breathing once again…
“Luke…you’re moaning…”
“Interesting…”
“Yeah, that’s the way I like it…”
“You’re…wounded…”
“Gladly bleeding, actually…”
“Luke…let me call a doctor…”
He starts panting heavily… as his blood spreads on the pillow…
“Luke, you’re not feeling well…let me call a doctor!”
“Don’t…I need to talk to you…”
“About?”
“About…something…”
The pillow stopped turning red for a second…
“Luke… a few days ago… I still thought I’d never…”
“What happened to me?”
“THAT’S WHAT I’M WONDERING,TOO!”
“DON’T YOU SCREAM AT ME!”
…Silence…
“Alicia… I don’t know a thing…”
“How dare you say that?! LUKE, YOU HAD WINGS!
…Didn’t you?... I mean was I dreaming or something? …’Cause even if I was dreaming… I certainly woke up with you dead in my arms…”
“…In your arms…”
“But you just…fell in a coma…”
“Hmm…”
“And you finally woke up…”
“As I said earlier…not for long…”
“What do you mean?”
“Say it…say it…”
“Alicia…I’m so weak…”
“Huh?...”
He grabbed her hand firmly and slightly pulled her…
“There are… so many things you should know…”
“What?...”
She was already sobbing while speaking…
And he started coughing…
“What are those things, Luke?...”
His cardiograph was bumping so fast…
“Luke?...”
“I told you I can’t take this for long…you should believe me…”
“Why should I?...”
“It’s for your own good…
Listen…listen…”
His voice was fading away in her ears…
“There were so many lies… weren’t there, Luke?”
“I don’t think I can tell the difference between what’s true and what’s not anymore…”
“There’s no need for you to tell the difference… since there’s nothing true…”
“Oh, want me to…”
He was interrupted by a round of coughs…
“To…prove you wrong?”
“Know anything that’s not false?”
“That’s if you want me to tell you…”
“What?...Another lie?...”
“No…I just want to advise you…for the times I won’t be there for you…”
She stared at him for minutes…
“Go ahead…”
“Hmm…look…”
Luke took a deep breath…
“First of all…make sure you’re always surrounded by what pleases you…”
“?!”
“Never do the opposite…like I did…
I’m sure you wouldn’t like to live my life…
Make sure you’re always surrounded by light…keep it close to you as if it was your own child…
Never let it escape from you…and always remember that it’s afraid of betrayal…”
“?!”
“And…second…
The month of September is for you to keep around, too…
Never let it go and end all of a sudden…
Because…remember this…
If the day of 30th of September comes… there won’t be any October…
Or November…or December… nothing…
At all…”
“LUKE!”
She could feel that he was about to lose consciousness… His head fell deeply into his pillow…
His pulse…
His eyes…
And his words… Light and September…
The cardiograph was barely marking any heart beats…
And it stopped…
“And it was all so senseless…”
“CALL A DOCTOR!...”
“WE’RE LOSING HIM!...”
She just stood there, watching…
And waiting for it to happen…
At least now, she was patient…
Nothing…nothing…
“Miss, I must ask you to leave… the visiting hours are over already…”
Is this thing I feel…envy or pain?...
I can’t tell…
The hospital was left far behind…
I can’t even tell if it’s love…or hate…