"Chapter 2" by Sparky A Taranto

Life passes on we all graduate high school and collage. Lee goes on to marry Missy while Lynn goes on to marring Chasity. I ended up living alone and not marring anyone. Kayleen ends up getting engaged with Brian. Brian and I never really got together after the day he started going out with her. Lee, Lynn, Kayleen and I stay in contact. Lee, Lynn and I, after collage, join the army for 5 years and we than everybody (Lee, Lynn, Kayleen, Brian and I) moved to New York City. We were living there for about 4 years when all the trouble started.

"If I ever catch you in a building with criminals again, than I will have you ass on put in jail." Said the chief of police. "But I was able to draw there fire away long enough to get your guys in and surrond them" Sparky said. "Does’t that mean anything?". "Just don’t let me catch you" the chief said. "This is police business only, GOT IT?" "yea, yea,yea" Sparky says and he fly’s off. The next night, sparky was on his way to a public pub on the hover board when he heard a scream. He turned to hear crys of help and I followed the crys to find Kayleen and Ryan on the side walk.

Thinking it was just a sick joke played by one of my friends I mostly thought nothing of it. The next day Lee called and asked if I had seen his wife, Missy. He said that he woke up this morning and his wife, Missy was not there. When I said no, I looked over at the note on the table across the room. The line in the letter that said "You and all of your friends will pay dearly" popped back into my mind. I tolled Lee I would call him back and I than called Lynn on the phone. When Lynn answered it I asked him if he knew where his wife (Chasity) was. He said that she was taking a nap. I tolled him to go check on her and when he came back he said that the window was open and she was not there. I tolled him that he, Lee and I had to have an emergency meeting at a local Pub that night. I called Lee and tolled him the same thing I tolled Lynn. When I was done on the phone, I got into my experimental, army hummer and drove to my home town where the old incident involving Razor happened in my old school and teen center. I went to the police and they remembered me. I lied to them and said I wanted to learn all the information I they knew about Razor for a collage paper I was working on. I did not want to tell the police about the letter in fear of what the mystery writer might do to my friend's wife’s. They gave me all the information that they had on him. I learned that they had found Razor’s body at the bottom of the cliff and it was broken all over and burnt up, police said. They also said that his head was not on his body and was never found. They figured it must of smashed on the fall down, or might of burnt up to nothing. His body was later burned and his ashes were buried in a local cemetery. As I was driving to the Pub, lines from the letter kept racing threw my mind. "You and all of your friends will pay dearly. But You will pay the most. I am going to torture your life the harshest way I know of." I was thinking how could he torture me the most. At the Pub, I showed Lee and Lynn the information about Razor and I showed them the letter. We all started figuring that it was one of his old gang members. We put our heads together and guessed that they had kidnapped their wives. We all were thinking about how would he punish me. We kept going over the letter. "Punish you in the harshest way." We thought together and Lynn suddenly, blurted out "What about Kayleen? If anything happened to her you would be in the most pain you could ever be in." As we ran out the doors, toward our vehicles, we were suddenly jumped by 4 guys. On there for-heads they all had a bandanna with a spider on it. They all rushed us at once and clothes lined us, which knocked us backward. When we got up we started our offense. Lee, being a great kicker, kicked a guy on the side of the head which knocked him to the ground and than Lee started kicking him there. Lynn and me, being good with our fists, started smashing people in the mouth and jaws. After we got blood from there mouths, we than started working on there stomachs. There was only one guy left and he took off running away. After we caught up and kicked his ass, I got into my Hummer, Lee jumped into his mustang and Lynn got into his Viper. As we were flying down the 5 mile road toward Kayleen’s house my only thoughts were if she was going to be there or not. When we got there I ran up toward the door (not bothering to wait for the truck to come to a complete stop) and started pounding on the door. Brian (her fiancée) came to the door and when he opened it, I did not even bother talking. I just walked right past him and started looking for Kayleen. When I asked him where she was he said that she was out shopping at a nearby GAP store. "Shopping for clothes?" I said. "8:30 at night?" He said "Yea. you know how women are. They put there minds to something they never wanna give up." So as my friends were apologizing for my rude intrusion, I jumped into the hummer and headed down to the GAP store that was about 10 miles away. Lynn was able to catch up and pull beside me while we were traveling at about 120 mph, down the highway to the store. He asked me over the CB how my truck can be so fast. I told him that the government had made the engine so it has speed like a mustang yet has enough power to carry a hummer frame. When we pulled into the parking lot it was all empty. The store was closed up for renovation. As we started heading back to Kayleen’s house, we saw a huge explosion in the distance ahead of us. Lynn, being a volunteer fire-fighter followed all the fire trucks and we followed him. When we were able to see the house, I started driving across the field to get there sooner. It was Kayleen’s house. I flew out of my hummer (once again not waiting for it to stop), passed the fire-fighters shooting water and ran right into the burning house. Trying to see threw the smoke I was yelling out Kayleen’s name but I heard no answer. Finally fire-fighters ended up pulling me out of the fire. Ignoring the pain from the heat, I kept trying to call her name. After they had gotten me out of the house, it collapsed. I had than come to a conclusion that both Kayleen and Brian had died. I figured this since they did not pull anybody out and both of their cars were in the garage.

Depressed, Lee, Lynn and I all drove back to my house while I was thinking it was to late to tell her how much I care about her. When we arrived at my house we noticed that my door was swinging open as if it had been broken open. Hand guns ready, we sneaked into the house. The place was a mess. I found a package on the dinning table with a letter on it. On the letter it read: "That was only half of my revenge toward you. You will suffer the other half in a matter of seconds." After I removed the letter, I could here some ticking. We all turned and we were out the just as the bomb went off. It sent all of us flying about 5 feet and we all hit the ground hard. I recovered before my friends did. I could here police cars coming and I quickly hid in the seat of my hummer. I did this because I kept telling myself, "He killed the person I care most about in my life and now he is going to pay for that." I thought it would be easier to get back at him if he thought I was dead.

I hid low for a couple of days and than I went to Lynn’s house, picked him up, went to Lee's house to stay. After I told them what I was doing the phone rang. Lee answered it and he motioned us to get on the other phones. They voice was a deep voice yet easy to understand. He said "If you and Mr. Summer want to see your wives again meet me at the abandoned meat processor factory on south street noon tomorrow. You two are to come with no police or else the women will die." Lee asked if they were to bring anything but the line went dead. Later that day we went to Lynn’s grandfathers house for supplies. Since his grandfather was once a great leader in the army he was granted life time access to the military armory bunker. Lee and Lynn were grabbing all sorts of guns. I grabbed some grappling hooks, grenades, a chain gun and a few hand guns. My hover board was still active and that was kept in the back of my hummer. I filled that full of gasoline and made sure everything was working OK. Lynn and Lee grabbed a few hand guns each, some shotguns and grabbed some grenade launchers along with bazooka’s and tear gas guns. The next day Lynn drove the mustang while I hid in the hummer, driven by Lee on the way to the factory. Two men with rifles came out to "greet" Lee and Lynn. They went around the vehicles (while the their guns were pointing at Lee and Lynn) to make sure they were not followed. "I thought that hummer belong to your dead friend, Sparky?" One guy said while the other laughed. Lee said "uh.. He left it to me in his will." The guy said "Hmp.. Nice friend. OK......lets go" Thinking they were alone, they took Lee and Lynn inside. When the door closed I snuck out of the car and shot my grappling hook so it attached right above an open window. When I got into the room, a guy walked around the corner and I took him out with a silencer on one of my handguns. I walked out of the room and walked right onto a catwalk where I could see a whole load of men surrounding Lee and Lynn. The person who was telling the men what to do was wearing a black mask and suit. I heard Lynn yell "where is Chasity?" Than Lee said "and where is Missy?" The man in the mask just laughed. He said "They are in the maze directly behind me. You must pass obstacles to get to your wife’s and when or should I say, IF you find them you are going to find a big surprise." He turned around and as he was walking away he said "Oh, by the way, you have 1/2 an hour to find them before there room runs out of oxygen. He went into an underground passage way and the men than attacked Lee and Lynn. I quickly hooked up my board and flew down but by the time I had gotten down there, most of the men were beaten. I helped finish them off and we went back to the truck. I took of the board, put it on my back and help Lee and Lynn get their supplies. We got the rest of the weapons from the truck and then we headed for the maze.

The beginning of the maze started with a couple of statues standing in front of the maze entrance. They seemed harmless until I saw that their mouths were open and there were holes in them. I picked up a piece of wood, put it in the path and a Beam shot from mouth to mouth and burnt a hole right threw the wood. So after knowing that, we crawled under the beams and we were not touched at all. We traveled about 50 ft and when we reached a 2 way path in the maze we decided to split up, Lee and Lynn one way and I went the other way. We each turn on our 3-way radio’s and headed on our different ways. My way is pretty easy. The only thing I came across was a wire sticking in the way where my feet go and I stepped over it. Lee and Lynn’s way was pretty easy too until they were ambushed by men who jumped them from above. To top it all of they could not run away because both ways had fire shooting holes in the walls that were not stopping. There was about 50 feet between each flame and in-between was Lee, Lynn and about 8 guys. I heard a quick call for back-up on the radio and I turned to run back to help. Not thinking, I ran back and my foot tripped the cord. Suddenly I heard some whistling sounds. I turn around and I see and storm of darts coming from the ceiling heading toward me. Not bothering to stand around and find out if they were poisonous or not I started running down the hall. I just barely made it to the end and around the corner. I started running until I saw the flames. Not bothering to slow down I placed a hand grenade into my pocket, threw my backpack and all my guns on the floor, covered my face with my trench coat and ran threw the fire. As I was coming threw I saw 2 men with their backs to me. I bull rushed them down from behind and helped with the rest of the people that were standing up. (There were only 5 left when I entered. Lee and Lynn had pushed one into the flames and he burnt to death while Lee took one guy out and Lynn took the other one out.) We fought them all and my trench coat caught on fire so I took out my grenade, took off the coat and threw on the floor to step on it to put it out. After we defeated them I took the grenade and blew away the way where one flame was coming from. While I went to get my backpack (cursing about by burnt trench coat) Lynn blew away the other flame. We decided to head with each other the rest of the way. We started walking down the hall again when we started hearing engine sounds from above. We turn around and we see a ATV driving off the top of the wall. Lee turns around first and he fires a missile from his bazooka at him. It hits the wall besides the guy but it still sets the 4-wheeler on fire along with the guy driving it. He falls to the ground and starts running around in circles on fire. Lynn goes up to the guy and gives him a mighty kick to the back of the head to knock him out. We leave the guy there to burn and go on our way. Nothing else happened that was that important besides the fact that, Lee and Lynn got a cut on their legs while I got a cut on my arm. The reason we got these is because there were throwing stars shot at us. Lee and Lynn could not act fast enough and got there legs cut while I tried doing a somersault over them but my arms was cut with a blade. When we round the bend we saw a map of the whole maze. The way I was heading before I would have come to a dead end and I would of fell from a trap door onto a bunch of spikes. We go around a corner with an arrow pointing left which we take and come to a door. We open it and we see Missy and Chasity, tied up and was hanging by there hands. While Lee, Lynn and I went to untie the girls the door behind us closed and locked while a door at the other end slides open. We walk threw the open doors and we see many crates all around. While Lee and Lynn embrace with there wives, I looked around. We heard the leader’s voice (voice from before) coming around the corner. Lee and Lynn readied their weapons while I was climbing up to the catwalk to hide in a sniper point location. We waited for the leader to come so we could "Talk". First we saw many men with hand-guns than the leader (still in the mask) came around the corner with a female under another mask. There was something familiar about the lovely figure of the girl but I couldn’t put my finger directly on it. The leader takes the mask of the girl and my heart almost skipped a beat. It was Kayleen standing there ALIVE! The leader than said "HA HA! Sparky died thinking that the one girl he truly loved was dead. I knew that the pain would probably drive him to his grave but I helped a little with the number I did on his house. Hear, you can have her." He was about to give her to Lee and Lynn when somebody noticed me up there and started shooting. The leader seeing me up there, stumbled backward for a second, grabbed Kayleen and headed back. Jumping on my board, (I was already wearing the boots)I jumped over the railing glided down toward the group of men, while shooting at theme at the same time,. Lee and Lynn were shooting at the men before the men had time to react. The only reason they did this was only because they knew that there wives were safe. After I had flown over them I quickly hit the booster and soared down the strait hall, chasing the leader and Kayleen. As they turned a corner I slowed down, jumped off, grabbed the board and slowly eased my way around the corner. When I got around the corner it went about 5 yards and came to a dead end. Screaming I said "I lost you in high school to Brian I will not loose to some maniac I don’t even know" I backed up and blew away the dead end wall with a grenade. There was a passage way leading down and I ran down there. The end of the doors were shut and I flew right down busting open the doors and looking around. Than I saw the leader starting up a sea plane with Kayleen with him. I ran toward them and knowing that they were moving I dropped my backpack knowing that I had only one hand-gun in my pants, one grenade and one grappling hook left in my trench coat and my hover board. I headed toward a boat with a guy near untying it, pushed the guy into the water and started the boat up. I started chasing them down the river thinking how I was going to keep up when it takes off. (The whole time he is shooting at me.) I noticed that he was shooting at a 5-gallon container of gasoline in the back seat so I had to think fast. I than remembered the grappling hook in my coat pocket I took it out and threw it at the plane. Luckily it hooked onto the wheel axles and I started lifting off. As soon as I was out of the boat I took out my gun, shot the gasoline can and the whole boat blew up. Not knowing I was on the bottom of the plane I saw him shut the door and we started flying away.

We flew over the Pacific Ocean and when land started appearing the plane started lowering. I tried to radio Lee and Lynn but we were to far out of range to reach them. On the shore of the island I saw a huge wall with guards around it with a gate in the middle. As we flew over the gate I let go, fell about 20ft and dove into the water. As I surfaced I swam over to the docks. Kayleen was not there neither, was her kidnapper. I saw a soldier sitting near the dock lighting a cigarette, so I quietly swam over, climbed onto the dock, knocked him out with the butt of the gun and took his uniform. The uniform was just my size and it had grenades all over it and a hand-gun tucked away in it’s inside pocket. I saw many people entering a hanger so I followed, my gun ready in my pocket. Everybody was looking upward and I saw Kayleen in a cage up on a pulley. The leader than came out from a curtain and was cheering everybody on. They suddenly started chanting "BRIAN! BRIAN! BRIAN!" I was thinking "No it can’t be the Brian I know" Suddenly he pulled of his mask and it was Kayleen’s Fiancée, Brian. I almost crapped my pants. He than started talking. "Followers" He said "It seemed that the man who killed your great leader, Razor had survived the bomb from his house." There is a lot of mumbling but he raised his hand to silence everyone. "But, I have personally taken him out while he was chasing me. I risked my own life to end the life of Sparky." "YEA!!" Came a cry from the crowd. Brian than said "Now, lets all go celebrate by busting open our supply of hard liquor" Everybody was cheering as the left but I stayed and hid until everybody had left. Everybody had left except one other person who was left to watch over Kayleen.

I waited for an hour and I than walked toward him. He quickly pointed the gun at me until I told acted like it was my time to watch the prisoner. He gave me the cage key and when he left, I found the controller to let the cage she was in down. As I lowered her down I, I could here she was crying and begging me to not torture her anymore. (she did not know it was me because she her hands were tied behind her back and she had a blindfold on) When I opened the cage, I saw her sitting down in the corner of the cage with the blindfold on. I could see tears running down her cheeks as I walked toward her. I went over and as I was walking over she looked so scared. I was thinking to myself, "Man, Now I know that she is strong mentally. I would think that any other person, even myself would probably be dead or in shock from all the torture and pain she has been threw but all she is doing is crying." When I got to her and pulled the blindfold her eyes were tightly shut. I than whispered her name and she slightly opened one eye. When she saw it was me her eyes opened wide and a huge smile came across her face. As I was untying her she was crying. (hopefully tears of joy but I never did find out and really did not bother me) As were leaving the hanger we headed toward a speed boat sitting in the water but it was surround by guards. Ducking behind the hanger door, I gave Kayleen my hand-gun (for more protection) with some extra clips. and I took off toward the big liquor party. As I entered, I saw a whole bunch of beer bottles laying around along with people laying around. I asked one of the drunken men where the armory was and he pointed to another hanger about 50ft away. As I was sneaking over there I kept looking back because I kept thinking somebody was following me. I punched the guard at the hanger in the back of the head and got in. I grabbed a chain gun, wrapped some ammo around myself, packed a backpack full of grenades, slipped a revolver in the back of my pants under my shirt and headed out. I got back to Kayleen and tolled her when she saw a big explosion run like hell to the boat. I also tolled her when she got to the boat start it up and take off. "Don’t worry about me. I be right behind you" I said. We locked eyes for a second like a romance moment before I took off climbing the big crates. When I got to the top, I yelled "HEY" to get the attention of the guards. As they were turning around I threw a grenade behind them near some more crates. They exploded and distracted some guards. As I saw Kayleen running out behind the crates, I opened fire with the chain-gun toward the guards. While I was shooting I could see Kayleen running toward the boat, also shooting. After I climbed down the crates, I ran toward the boat as it was leaving and dove in. People hearing the explosion came running and getting into other speed boats. As Kayleen drove, I was in the back trying to slow them down. I did not have to shoot at most of them since they were to drunk to drive straight and they were crashing into each other. I took out the other boats by throwing the grenades at and into there boats. As we were driving through the ocean we were pretty quiet. I made sure that she was OK and we talked about other things. "Why did Brian do all this?" and "Your sure your not hurt that much?" were some of the things that I asked. She knew the answers to most of the questions I asked her (she was OK and stuff like that) but she did not know why Brian was doing this. When we were reaching shore we started getting shot at. We looked up and noticed that the sea plane from before was following us and shooting at us. When we were getting near shore, I opened fire at the plane at it. I was still shooting at while dodging bullets as I was climbing out after Kayleen stopped the boat. I finally set it on fire and it started flying in the opposite direction, out of control. Thinking everything was all right, we got into another locked eye moment and were about to kiss when we heard a whistling sound. The plane was heading straight for us on fire. We ran away just as it hit the ground and exploded. Luckily we were able to get inside a boat house and were not affected by the explosion.

As we came out of the house we were looking at the wreck and suddenly we heard laughing at the end of the dock. Brian was burnt a little on the face and his clothes were a little burnt. He had a hand-gun pointing right at us. I reached for my chain gun but he said "Don’t even try it" He was laughing while he said "You may have one the battle, you may have gotten the girl, you may have even one the war but I will still have my revenge." "WHY?" I asked " Why Do you want to kill me. What have I ever done to you that is so horrible?" (The whole time I was motioning Kayleen to get the revolver in the back of my pants) "Remember that day 15 years ago when razor went into your teen center dance school?" He said. "Remember how you killed him that night. You may not think it is that big of a deal but it is. It really is. You think that you can go of and kill whoever you want, well let me tell you..... Nobody kills MY FATHER AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!!" My jaw hit the ground. "He was your father?" I said. " I really am sorry for what I did but if I did not do what I did, Kayleen would not be standing here right know." I doesn’t matter" he said. " After that night my father did not come home I promised to get revenge on you." How come your father grabbed Kayleen?" I said. Didn’t he know that you were going with Kayleen at the time, 15 years ago. Why did he always take her?" "Because he did not know at the time" Brian said, almost shouting while crying at me. " I could never tell him anything because he would always be talking about getting revenge. After you kept saving her I stopped liking her as much as I once did. The only reason I ever became engaged to Kayleen was to do make you think she was dead in the house fire. I spent years working on my plan to get you back. I found many people who were loyal followers of my father and they were the ones who helped me. I knew if I asked Kayleen for help that she would not do it so I figured, if she was not with me , than she was against me." But.." I started. "No more talk. Now You DIE!" Brian said. He raised the toward me and a shot ran threw the air. Brian’s gun went flying away from his hand. Brian’s eyes nearly pooped out of his head. Kayleen was holding the smoking revolver that shot the gun out of his hand. Brian started backing up away from me. (probably because I still had the chain gun around my shoulders) Seeing him back off I said "Why you backin’ off Brian? You scared?" He said "You wouldn’t be so tuff if you didn’t have that gun" I looked right into his eyes, smiled and dropped the chain gun onto the ground. I raised my fists and said "Lets settle this like men" "OK" Brian said lets do it." He reached into the back of his pants, pulled out a switch blade and tossed it on the ground and raised his fists. We circled each other and than he lunged at me. I was able to dodge his fists, but when he ran by he lifted up the back foot up and kicked me in the face. I attempted to shake it off and while I did he ran up, grabbed my shirt and threw me into some boxes. He walked over and I threw a piece of wood at him. He dodged it but when he did I leaped toward him a slammed him in the stomach with my fist. While trying to get up he grabs me by the hair, smashes my face in his Knee a couple times and throws me toward the edge of the dock. He ran over, and started choking me while I was on my back with my head hanging over edge. I was able to lift my legs and it tipped both of us into the drink about 6 feet below. We wrestled around in the water for a little bit and I suddenly stopped fighting. I pretended that I had stopped fighting and drowned. I did this because I knew that I would be better fighting on land than in water. He climbed out thinking that he won and I could see him heading back toward Kayleen. I climbed out the side later without him noticing and climbed up slowly. I could here Brian yelling at Kayleen to go and look at my body in the water. I saw her face look over the dock and she read my lips while I told her to act like you could not see my body. She said "Where is his body?" Brian said "right there" and she said "where?" and he said "He is right.." as he peered over to point me out I grabbed his hair and pulled him over into the ocean. I quickly climbed out looked over the dock and did a double-arm axhandle on Brian’s floating body. I knocked him out when I hit him and I dragged his body up the walkway onto the top deck. I left his body on the ground and started walking toward Kayleen. I stumbled and when I did I saw Brian getting up and reaching into his boot. He pulled out a little boot gun and aimed it at me. He was about to fire when he smiled, moved his arm and pointed it at Kayleen. With every last bit of energy and strength I had left I jumped into the path of the bullet that was shot at Kayleen. The bullet hit me in my stomach and I fell to the ground. The gun was than pointed at me and I thought I was going to die. My sight was already blurry (Me being without glasses and the pain from the bullet wound) when I heard a gun-shot. I thought that he was shooting at me and I closed my eyes. When I didn’t feel anything I opened my eyes and I saw Brian just standing there with no gun in his hand. Once again, Kayleen had shot the gun out of Brian’s and he was just standing there. While Brian went after the chain gun, he reached down to pick it up and looked up at Kayleen. She said "It’s over Brian" "I guess your right Kayleen" he said I may as well end it. I tried to avenge my father but there was no such luck. I guess this is the end." He picked up the switch-blade and flipped it open. "Oh by the way," he said "Sparky, if I lost somebody I care most about in my life than so will you." At that moment, he whipped out a 2 pairs of hand-cuffs, slapped one on Kayleen and one on him-self and one to his other hand and one to a cement block. He than rammed the knife into his side. He fell of the dock and took the cement block with Kayleen down into the water. I suddenly forgot all about my pain, got an adrenaline rush and dove in after Kayleen. When I reached the water, I noticed that she was already under water so I had to act fast. I could not break the hand-cuffs connecting Kayleen to Brian so I pulled the knife out of Brian’s side and started picking the lock with it. Noticing that Kayleen was almost out of air I really started to hurry. By the time I picked it, Kayleen had passed out from lack of air. I brought her body up to the surface, dragged her to the dock and started giving her mouth-to-mouth. After about 2 minutes of that I was losing hope on reviving her. I than looked up to the sky’s and prayed that I would not lose Kayleen after all I went threw these past years. I kept going at it until I saw an ambulance some. Some fisher man had called the police and by the time they had arrived I had been giving Kayleen mouth-to-mouth for about 6 minutes. They took Kayleen and me away in the ambulance to a nearby hospital. I was examined and was left in a room to recover. I pulled of my medical cords, jumped out of my bed and headed down to Kayleen’s room to see how she was doing since nobody was telling me. I went to the room and her whole family was there (Mom, sister, brother, father) when they saw me they left to leave us alone. I walked up to her bed and I read her clip-board on the end of her bed. It said that they have been able to keep her alive but they have not been able to bring her back awake. I went to the side of her bed and sat down in a chair while holding her hand. A nurse came in and said that visiting time was over and I had to leave. I said that I was a patient there also so she said I could stay longer. She also told me that even though she is not awake it is always good to talk to them. When she left, I looked back at Kayleen. I looked at her for a long time before I said something. Even than my voice started off crackly "Kayleen" I said. "I don’t know if you can her me or not but I will say this anyway. I remember the day at wrestling camp when you walked up to me and remembered my name. I remember how I had my eye on you since the first day of camp. When we went to field days. I would have to say that was the best time of my life. (Cue flashbacks) I remember how we walked around together as just old friends. I remember that we had a grand old time there. I remember how at the end of the night, I was so confused on if we were going out or not. You were one of the only girls that I really was crazy about and I was able to go out with you. But the one moment in my life, that I will never, ever forget is the night at the dance when I got my first kiss from you. That kiss meant everything in the world to me. I don’t know if it was the fact that I was really crazy about you or the fact it was my first kiss or what but from that moment on, I knew that I.......... Loved you." I continued as small tears formed in my eyes. " I know at the time people would keep saying, Oh you will get over her and There are plenty of fish in the sea and some said well if she wanted to go out with somebody else than she really doesn’t deserve you. I remember how I would push threw those words and always think you would someday come back to me. If you can hear me right now you are probably thinking (oh brother, here he goes again trying to put another guilt trip on me) well I am just telling the truth. You were always trustworthy to me and I will always remember how being trusty helped you find what we thought was a better partner for you. You kept saying that it wasn’t my fault and that it was yours but I never would listen. Out of all the times that you have listened to me and helped me, I just kept thinking that you could never do something bad or wrong. I always thought that there was nothing you could do that was very wrong. You probably can’t hear me so let me just say Don’t you leave. I always known that you are a fighter and I know that you will fight threw this" By that time, my head was hanging down. When I wiped away the tears, stood up and turned toward the door. As I started walking, I turned my head and than my body and walked toward Kayleen. She looked so peaceful just laying there on the bed. I leaded over and gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek, and walked toward a vase of roses. I picked one out, got a piece of paper and wrote the same thing I wrote on one of the roses I once got her 15 years ago. (Cue another flashback) It said a little saying. "You don’t know what you have until it is gone. Love, Mark" I placed it on her bed next to her arm.

As I was walking out the door, I could hear movement behind me. I turned slowly around and there was Kayleen, sitting up in her bed. As I was thanking god that she made it threw, I noticed that she started reading the card. Knowing that I once scared her when we were younger by saying how much I loved her with the same sentence, I started heading out the door. As I walked out the door, a nurse walked in to check on Kayleen. As I was walking down the hallway to my room the nurse caught up with me. She said that Kayleen wanted to see me. Fearing the worst (again) I slowly turned around and walked back to her room. As I entered she was standing. I stood just in front of the door way as she walked toward me and we hugged. She than whispered in my ear that she heard everything I had been saying. Dropping my arms in surpriesment, I looked at her to see if she was angry, happy or what. She turned around and did not say anything. I walked up behind her and asked if she was angry or happy at me. "Well" she said "I am kinda both." "BOTH?" I said. "How can you be both mad and happy at me at the same time time." Happy that you said what you said" she said "Yet mad that you never tolled me sooner." With joy in my heart I once again embraced her and once again, my life was good. She went back to her bed and I went back to my room (for we were both dizzy) and we both fell asleep. I woke up and I went to her room and sat on the side of her bed. I looked at her sleeping there so peacefully. I than went back to my room, wrote a letter, went back to her room, placed the letter on her table, gave her a kiss on the cheek and I walked out the door and out of the hospital. Kayleen woke up and she opened the letter. It read:

(The whole time she is reading the letter, it shows clips of me finishing backing my hummer and leaving)