The Devolution of Reality

Part 8 (The End)

J: "Why did you make me like this? Why the fuck did you make me a monster Michael!?" This was the first time Jack had ever used his full name.

J: "Nobody can love this! Nobody will ever love this!" Michael felt the scarred monster's pain, everything these two felt he could feel and it was seeping into his mind like a poison. Lucy decided it was her turn to speak up.

L: "Am I beautiful now Michael? What happened to my eyes and my hair? Look at my wrists! You made me this! You gave me this pain!" Michael fell to his knees in the blackness, his mind was eating him from the inside out. Then Lucy asked the question that almost ended him.

L: "Why do I look so much like her? Why do I look like Sam?" It finally had hit Michael, in the middle of his mind with no distractions. Lucy looked exactly like Sam just with different hair and eyes. Then he stared back at Jack. He got a better look at Jack without his mask, and it was like staring into a mirror full of scars.

J: "That's right Mikey, get a good look. This fucking monster looks just like you."

The two Voices were images of pure spirit. Souls that had been intertwined since the beginning, the day Michael decided to meet his new neighbor. Living evils in love. Michael began to question what was real and what wasn't. Reality was falling apart and he didn't know what to do. Once again his body became numb and he started to fall into the endless darkness. A single voice shined through the darkness and it was a sad tearful voice.

"Wake up Michael......"

"Please....."

"I need you...."

Michael opened his eyes and was back home. He was lying in bed, with no idea what time it was or what had happened after the incident at F.C.O.T.Y. Someone was holding onto him, and his chest was soaked in tears. He looked down and saw the only face he ever wanted to. A headphone ear bud was blaring a familiar song. "I Don't Love You" by My Chemical Romance, the same song playing in the hallway that fateful day he kissed his only love. Sam laid with him tears still fresh on her face, crying out for Michael to wake up.

S: "Please wake up Michael......It's been two weeks since they brought you home......what did they do to you over there......I love you......please come back...."

M: "Who ever said I loved you?" Sam jumped up and ripped the ear buds right out of their ears. She stared in shock, making sure she wasn't dreaming, and that the boy that she loved had returned to reality. He sat up and kissed her as if it were the first and last time he ever would. She breathed heavily and rested her head on his shoulder.

S: "You missed our date under the tree....."

M: "I'm so sorry."

S: "Just shut up and never disappear like that again......" She kissed him again almost afraid that she would lose him again.

S: "You were missing for a week, and then a truck came by and I saw them carry you into your house......" Sam looked down as she remembered the moment seeing Michael's lifeless body being brought back to her. She remembered the pain like a knife in her heart.

S: "What happened to you over there?" Suddenly a thousand memories poured into Michael's head, and he finally remembered what happened to him after he was subdued at F.C.O.T.Y.

M: "They kept me in a padded room, drugged me up every day trying to pry free the Voices. After each failure they went onto a new drug and new treatment. The treatments were awful.... They strapped me down and interrogated me. When they didn't get the results they wanted, they hit me with enough tranquilizer to forget the last month." Sam started to cry even harder and buried her head into his chest.

S: "Every day for the past two weeks, I held you, wearing your hoodie and played our song waiting for you to come back to me......"

M: "I came back." Sam giggled and wiped her eyes.

M: "What happened between you and Kyle?" Sam lowered her head, and rubbed two bruises on her arms. Michael knew what happened, just by her reaction, and more tears fell between the two of them. He wished he could've been there to protect her, and he thought of all the other bruises that were probably gone now.

S: "It's ok Mike, your brother caught him and had him arrested."

M: "I missed you."

S: "Oak tree?"

The two got up and walked outside. Michael lifted Sam over the fence and he followed after her. She laid down under the tree and he laid down holding her in a tight embrace.

M: "Sam?"

S: "Yeah?" Michael turned his head and found the confidence to finally stare into her eyes and tell her what words never had to be spoken to be understood.

M: "I love you."

The End