Chapter 3: Souls of Heaven

Love NotesWords: 3720

-- God only knows what went wrong --

We both lye above the cold, hard ground and beneath the deep blue sky.

Red.

All I saw was red.

It was all gone.

Everything.

Gone.

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"This is where it happened."

"Really?"

"Right over there."

"Oh yeah. Now I remember."

"It certainly was a long time ago."

"So it seems to us."

"You're right."

"It only happened moments ago."

"We're already here?"

"Yes."

"This is it?"

"Yes."

"This is our heaven?"

"Yes."

"They'll never know."

"They'll never know to look here."

"I see us right up there."

"Both of us."

"Together."

"What are we?"

"I don't know."

"We weren't pure to each other."

"Not all the time."

"Why did that happen?"

"We still had the evilest parts of us within us."

"I'm sorry."

"It's alright, I promise."

"No, it wasn't. I was cruel."

"We both were."

"Wait a second.."

"Yes?"

"We weren't together when I--"

"I know."

"I was alone."

"I know."

"Why did you come here of all places?"

"I knew you'd be here."

"Why did you care? You hated me."

"I loved you."

"Then why'd you let me kill myself?

Why didn't you stop me?"

"I tried."

"That's why you're here?"

"Yes."

"How did it happen to you?"

"I found you."

"Y-You did?"

"Yeah, I did."

"But how did you die?"

"I saw how you did it."

"Gosh, don't talk about it."

"I did it too."

"What?"

"I did it too."

"Why would you do that to yourself?"

"I believe that's my question."

"I don't wanna talk about it."

"I know."

"You didn't have to do this.

You would have been fine."

"But I did have to."

"Why?"

"I couldn't live without you."

"You seemed to have done fine."

"I missed you."

"No, you didn't."

"I promise."

"We're dead now."

"I know. We have eternity."

"We're souls, y'know."

"I do."

"How could you have done this?"

"Because you did."

"I don't believe you. You wouldn't have."

"But I did."

"Prove it."

"Look at us."

"What?"

"I said look at us."

"Your body.."

"Mmm hmm."

"You used the same one I did."

"It was convenient."

"You didn't have to--"

"Yes. I did."

"You held back all this time?"

"Uh huh."

"Why didn't you tell me?

We could have lived on happily."

"Everything happens for a reason."

"You're saying this is supposed to be better than being alive together?"

"Isn't it?"

"We're dead."

"It's okay."

"No, it's not."

"No one can hurt you anymore."

"What?"

"They can't hurt you anymore."

"Stop."

"You're safe here, okay?"

"I don't know."

"Just give it a chance."

"Do I have much choice?"

"Guess not."

"Well, then heck with it."

"They'll never find us."

"I know."

"Nobody else knew about this place."

"Of course not."

"You know that."

"So our dead bodies will just decay?

Right there? Feet away from us now?"

"I guess so."

"Wouldn't you rather spend the rest of your life here than some graveyard?"

"Yes, of course I would. But my decaying body requests otherwise."

"Dead, and you're still funny."

"Lucky you."

"It's over now. I'm sorry I hurt you. I didn't know, really."

"It's alright. It's done."

"Now you believe me?"

"I do."

"Well then were free."

"Huh?"

"We're free now. Let's go."

"Where?"

"Heaven, of course."

"I thought this was heaven."

"No silly, this is where we died."

"Where's heaven?"

"Up."

"Right, I knew that."

"Come on now."

"But I don't want to leave."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to leave this place behind."

"You don't have to."

"How so?"

"Heaven is whatever you want it to be."

"So I can make heaven here?"

"Of course."

"Will you be there?"

"If you want me to be."

"Not a second without you."

"Even if I'm not in yours, you'll always be in mine."

"You'll always be in mine, too."

"Well then, let's go together."

"Lets."

"Hey, Jess?"

"Yeah?"

"Race ya to the road to heaven?"

"You're on."

"I'm not letting you win this time!"

"I don't need you to do that no more, Leslie. In heaven, I always win."