Until Death Do I Part

[Apollo]

The moon was my only light as I looked up. Looking down the grass seemed darker than it should have been. Touching it and looking at my hand I see my hand now is a crimson color.Blood? . . .Now there's a scream and I wake up in my dark room with heavy breaths. I swing my legs over my bed and place my head in my hands. They go through my long pitch black hair. One goes to my bedside table scrambling about for. . .Where is it?. . .My rolex from my grandfather. The dream flashes in my head and I shake it out. Now is not the time for that. . .
Something hits my window, I walk over and throw open the heavy dark blinds. On the lawn is Ben and Jesse. Jesse points to the ground and I smile. I point at my watch and hold up all five fingers. I go to my dresser find a cleaner shirt and shorts putting them on fast.
I grab my shoes and my cell phone and head to the stairs trying to tie my shoes. I hop to close and fall down the stairs. I get up and run out the door and jump over the hedge landing next to my friends.

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"There's the Terrier." Ben says while smiling. My nickname making me smile as well. I was always sticking up for people. I have always been shorter than everyone else but that never stops me from helping so hence the nickname Terrier.Ben apparently forgetting I know his middle name which he hates and never wants mentioned. "So what reason are you guys here?"
"Welllll. . ." Ben gets closer to Jesse and grabs her hand. "We wanted to tell you something." I know what it is instantly. Inside I become furious but outside I'm fine. Ben knew how much I cared for Jesse.
Jesse only stood there looking sorry. Her hair to her shoulders and not held up. . .I like her hair when it's down. . .but my mom comes to the door in her bathrobe and bedhead yelling so we can hear.
"Come one inside before breakfast gets cold."
We head inside and I'm the last one through the door.

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I close it behind me and walk into the kitchen where Jesse is helping my mom getting everyone their favorites (my mom has bad memory in the morning before her coffee). I smile as things are dropped, but not broken, and breakfast is finally ready to eat. We all dig in and I go out of the room with a letter I found on the table. I sit in my dad's big, old and comfy red chair as I open it. It read:
Hey kiddo!
As you know I have been in Rome working on restoring bits and pieces around the city for the government. Well I've been told by my boss (with a big grin on his face) my next assignment is in Maine to work on it's oldest lighthouse!!!
Yes new for my standards but I took it because before that I'm going to stop by for a visit.
With this letter I put a picture of the Colliseum among a couple of other I thought you might enjoy.
See ya soon. . .better have kept your nose clean
Dad
I jumped out of the chair running into the kitchen yelling as loud as I could. "He's coming!"

[Apollo]

My friends and my mother all have smiles on their faces as I sit down and start on my many chocolate chip muffins. We finish eating and we head up into my room. I go straight to my bookshelf and brush my fingers over my favorite, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare.,l every where my dad goes not only do I get pictures of what he has worked on or has seen but when he comes to the house he brings me a book in the Elizabethian time period or a play written by Shakespeare. My fingers go to the top of the book and pull it down revealing a button. I press it and the wall moves showing a staircase to the attic that my dad had redone for me.
The three of us go up and I add the pictures to the wall of other ones I have. I sit down in a bean bag chair and Jesse and Ben sit on the mattress on the floor together. (My mood going from slightly good to morbid in one second flat.)

[Apollo]

We all can't think of anything to say My head goes up and I look at the ceiling. Next it feels as if I do a flip and I'm. . . .I don't know
My vision blurry, my hands bloody and infront of my face. I. . .I can't see to well, my hands start to shake. Everything is defend, the water stings my eyes. I can't breath with it crushing me. It floods up into my nose and into my lungs. Everything that's blurry now darkens, I can't. . .Darkness, nothing . . .not even
"Until death do I part"
. . .a whisper. . .
Next I'm bolt right up and coughing. . . .breathing as hard as I can. "What the ^&*# was that!"

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I look around and see I'm up in tha attic and Jesse and Ben are around me looking confused. "You ok?"
Slowly I'm breathing normally and I still have what just happened in my head but I calm down. "Y-y-yeah I think so. . ."
"What happened?" I think for a second.
" . . .I think I just found out what it was like to drown. . ."

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"What do you mean?" Jesse and Ben looked at each other. "You mean like. . . you now know. . ."
"No I mean it felt like I was under water, then everything got dark and and. . . Then I felt the water go up my nose and in my motuh as it got into my lungs. . . it was like I was actually drowning."
Ben backed up and looked really pale. "Dude your freakin' me out. . ."
"You don't thinik I'm freaking myself out! I just felt like I was drowning for god's sake. . . I thought I had fallen in somewhere and died."
Jesse placed her hand on my shoulder. "You need to calm down . . . and maybe a trip to the park will do that." Ben and I nodded and we set out.
As we headed for the door I remembered one more thing and I stopped to think about it. Who said until death do I part? I don't think some one drowning could have said it. . . so who?

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I came home told my mom I was going to bed even though it was only one in the morning (summer vacation people!) and headed upstairs. I flopped on my head and couldn't help but think of what had happened earlier.
I tossed and turned. . .but not to try and fall asleep, but to stay awake. I didn't want to fall asleep, afraid of what my dreams might show. Another of those weird hallucinations may decide to intrude. But staying awake doesn't help, It's happened now. . .who is to say it won't and who will say it will.
"Better to sleep, hope 'n' pray for the best." I rolled over once more ready to embrace what may come next.

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I opened my eyes a little tiny bit and saw something. What the heck was that? I opened them the rest of the way and saw my dad leaning over me watching me sleep with a huge grin on his face.. "You know if anyone else did that or had that happen to them, they'd think it would be weird." I closed my eyes and began to roll. Feeling my dad sit on my bed I syaed still.
"O come on. . . you ain't gettin' out of bed fer your old man?"I smiled at that and sat up to give him a hug. "There's my boy." We both left my room and went downstairs to get something to eat.

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As we went to the kitchen I saw him grab his guitar. We each grabbed a pop-tart and went to the living room. "So how long you stayin'?"
My dad took a bite and thought about it. "Weel I was thinking until school but if that doesn't work then you could go with me and I could tutor you?"
I was sipping a drink and ended up almost spitting it out. Are you serious!"
"Yeah . . I have already talked to your mother and she said I had to get the diploma and all that shtuff." He pulled it out of his pocket. "All we'd need was the books. But I also thought it would be a nice trip so if you wanna bring your friends we can tour the world for the summer." I thought about it before I realized we couldn't.
"What about your work? Won't they need you?"
"Bah I can tell Dan what to do over the phone if he has problems." After eating his food he started to play the guitar he had brought with him.