200 Reasons To Live

"Hey man how are you doing?" Oli walked over to me. It was morning and Skylar was upstairs, and I was sitting out on the porch. I just had to lure him into the bathroom. I got up and ignored him. I silently walked into the house, while Oli followed silently.

"Hey Vic are you okay?" He asked. He followed me into the bathroom.

"Hey do you have any aspirin?" He asked. My head is pounding. I nodded my head yes. This gave me the perfect opportunity to reach in the cabinet and pull out the knife. I planned to push him back into my bathtub and plunge the knife into his heart. It would be a pretty easy clean up, I would just have to hide his body, then run the shower until the blood was gone. I grabbed the knife with confidence and turned around. "Vic, that's not aspirin." I could see fear run through his eyes. I walked towards him knife ready to stab. He tried to keep the distance between us. "Vic, put that down."

"She loves you. You stole her. We are in love and you are in our way." I sneered, still walking towards him. "You are dead to me! This town isn't big enough for both of us." He stepped backwards and tripped over the edge of the tub.

"Vic stop! I want to stay alive! Please enough!" He yelled. I loomed over him.

"You went to a bar with Skylar, and kissed her! She said I love you!" I hissed.

"No she didn't! She said I hate you!" He screamed, "She said that she missed you, and I said you want him to do this, and then I kissed her!" He screamed. I heard a gasp behind me. I spun around, knife still in hand.

"Vic!" She screeched, fear was the only thing I could see in her green eyes.

"Skylar!" I dropped the knife and stumbled over to her. She stepped back.

"Vic! What the fuck! You followed me!" I could see her making connections in her head. "You were in the bush!" She yelled. I walked towards her, and she backed up until she was against the wall. I strode towards he cautiously.

"Skylar..." I mumbled.

"Of course I fucking love him! He's one of my best friends! I don't love him romantically!" I saw her eyes widen. "Vic watch out!" She screeched. I turned around and Oli punched me square in the nose. I grabbed my nose as blood gushed out. I felt anger run through my veins. I punched Oli bak, in the gut. Skylar scampered past us and to the bathtub she picked up the knife. The ran out of the bathroom. I knew what that meant. I stopped fighting Oli.

"Skylar!" I yelled. I tried to run after her, but I guess Oli didn't know that. He grabbed my collar and pulled me backwards. I din't land on my feet, but instead on my butt. Get up you coward." He hissed.

"No Skylar ran off with a knife!" I yelled scampering to my feet and running up to Skylar's door. I started pounding on it. I heard Skylar stop crying.

"Go away!" She sobbed. I kicked on the door.

"Just let me in!" I yelled. Finally I had kicked the door in, and Skylar was in a red dress, and her makeup was done, but her mascara was running. She was sitting on the bed, slitting her wrists. I couldn't tell how many she had done, but she was working fast.

"Skylar stop." I rushed over next to her.

"Why? I'm causing too many problems." She sobbed. She made another.

"Skylar, if you kill yourself right here and now, I am going to follow you." I pulled out a pocketknife that I always kept on me, and started cutting again.

"Vic noo!" She sobbed trying to get it out my hands. She was bleeding everywhere. While she was distracted, I grabbed the knife. "Vic!" She screamed. I held them behind my back. Two paramedic walked in. They looked at the two of us,and the one stretcher they had.

"Take her first." I nodded. They grabbed a stunned Skylar, and strapped her down on the gurney, before she had time to react. Oli walked into the room.

"Wait what did you?" He stared at my wrists.

"I told her if she left, I was going with her." I made two more cuts. Oli just watched in shock.

"You used to-" I cut him off.

"Cut, yes." I made another. He just watched., even as the paramedics took the knife, and my personal pocket knife away from me. They strapped me down, like they had done to Skylar. They brought me outside, and left me next to Skylar; we silently stared at each other, with longing eyes. She stretched her hand across, and intertwined her fingers with mine.

She then whispered, "I love you."

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