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Post by Zellarinia Blaine on Sept 17, 2007 17:53:50 GMT -5
"SHE'S GONNA JUMP!!!"
Shasta heard the words of people below her as she stood high on a support wire of the bridge. She wanted to jump, she really did, and was getting very close to doing so. It seems that everything was going wrong at the same time, snowballing itself into chaos.
Her parents had found her and tried to take everything from her again, they disconnected her cell phone because she didn't call them. Seeing as she wasn't 18, they could do that. It didn't help she had become sober for Matthew and her withdrawls were happening at the time her parents came. This made them believe she wasn't capible of taking care of herself. So what did they do? Took her cat and are holding it hostage until she gets the mental help she 'so very needs'.
The withdrawls alone were hell to deal with and most of the time she delt with it alone. She was trying so hard to stay clean for Matt but it just wasn't working, she just wanted to get her drugs and call it good. But curing one problem would only start another, and she didn't want to expecience heartbreak on top of everything else.
So there she stood.. on top of the bridge leaning against, and slightly over, a support. Oh, how much she just wanted to jump and end it all. Just jump and get it over with, she was going to do it. Taking a step closer to the edge....
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 18:05:37 GMT -5
Matthew had only been walking down the street, coming from the Grocery Store, when he heard the shouts and screams of people. It sounded like someone was in trouble. At first, Matthew was thinking about just ignoring it and going about his own business. But the shouts got louder, so he knew that he couldn't just pass it by and ignore it. So he turned around and ran towards the noise of all the shouts.
And once he arrived there, he looked around and made his way through the crowd. He looked to see someone on the Bridge. He tilted his head, and focused himself on the back of the person's head. He recognized it as.. "SHASTA! What the hell are you doing?!" He asked, rushing over to her, and looking up at her as she stood on the Bridge, liable to jump at any time. He looked down to see that it was very steep. He then looked back up at Shasta, and he frowned.
[SUCKS.]
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 18:08:54 GMT -5
"You can't stop me Matthew." She said quietly as the tears began to fall down her cheeks. Matt... the only reason for her to live right now.. everything else had been taken away from her. She missed her ugly, deformed cat. Taking another step she was close to the edge, just too more steps and it'd all be over.
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 18:17:00 GMT -5
Matthew sighed. "Yes, actually, I can." He said. He took a deep breathe, then he climbed up, and stood beside Shasta. He looked over at her. "If you jump, then I'm going too. And YOU can't stop ME. Because if you go, then I will have lost everything. And I don't want that, because I don't want you to go. So, if you jump, then I'm right after you. I am willing to sacrifice myself for you, Shasta. I.. I love you." He had finally said it! The three words he had been so eager to say to her, but never found the right time to. This may not have been the right time either, but it just came out. And he surely meant it too.
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 20:42:38 GMT -5
"YOu.. what?" She said after he climbed up. Shasta stared at him, she couldn't believe her ears. He loved her? Wow, this was big, really big... so big Shasta really had no idea how to react to it.
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 20:44:58 GMT -5
Matthew looked down over the Bridge, and he closed his eyes. Wow, he had actually said it... he looked back up at Shasta, and he again inhaled deeply, and exhaled slowly. His heart was racing faster than ever before. "I said.. I love you, Shasta."
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 20:50:09 GMT -5
"No... no you don't." She said quietly with a frown trying to back away before slipping and almost falling. "YOu can't love me, you just can't." Shasta was so afraid she wouldn't be enough for him, she would mess it up somehow, actually she was suprised he had stuck around as long as he had.
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 20:55:16 GMT -5
Matthew sighed. Not exactly the way he wanted her to react. He shifted himself into a sitting position, his legs hanging over the bridge. He felt like he couldn't stand anymore, because if he would have, he would have fallen anyways, because his legs were trembling and would give away any moment due to how nervous he was. He looked over the side again, down to the water beneath the bridge.. wait, was it water, or was it land? He couldn't exactly tell because they were so high up. He supported himself with placing his arms on either side of him. He tilted his head. He was feeling sick now. His fear of heights wasn't exactly helping, either. He closed his eyes and tried to focus everything, not on how high up he was, but on.. something else.
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 20:58:32 GMT -5
Shasta screamed. She had slipped and was barely holding on to the suport wire she had grabbed in quick reaction. "Matt help!" She said scared out of her mind, okay maybe she didn't want to fall. As one of her shoes fell off she watched it, but couldn't see the impact it made on the water below. Now was the wrong moment to figure out she might be afraid of heights.
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 21:02:22 GMT -5
Matthew looked up quickly at the sound of the scream. His eyes then went wide when he saw Shasta just barely hanging on. "Oh God!" He yelled. He scrambled over and he grabbed her hand. He looked down at her. "It's ok, you're ok. You're gonna be ok, Shasta." He said. He leaned up, trying his best to bring Shasta with him. He closed his eyes, but then reopened them quickly, to make sure he wasn't going to drop Shasta. And finally, he had pulled her up to where she was sitting beside him. His arms were now trembling, and his heart was racing faster than ever before. He looked over at Shasta, and he was taking deep breathes. "You.. you ok.. Shasta?" He asked inbetween breathes.
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 21:08:58 GMT -5
When he saved her the crowd that had formed below them cheered.
Shasta was so shaken she threw her arms around Matt's neck and didn't let go. She was litterally shaking in his arms, scared to death of her neardeath experience. "M-Matt?" Her words...well word, was stuttery and barely audible. "I love you back."
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 21:13:00 GMT -5
Matthew was still shaken as well. He wrapped his arms around Shasta as she did him, and he was trying to calm himself down. Sure, he wasn't the one with the neardeath experience, but still.. he didn't want to lose Shasta. He looked at her as she said his name. "Yeah?" He asked.. he then smiled at her next comment. "You.. you do?"
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 21:16:43 GMT -5
"Yes, I do." She smiled feeling a little better as his arms wrapped around her. "I didn't jump because of you, you're my reason for living, so of course I love you."
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Post by Matthew Amsterdam on Sept 17, 2007 21:21:03 GMT -5
Matthew smiled a little bit more. "Well that's good. I'm glad that I can be the one to change your mind on something as stupid as this. And it was so hard for me to say it.. and when I finally told you, you said that I.. I couldn't. But now, knowing that you love me too, I feel more confident in saying it. I love you Shasta, I really do." He said. He leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips.
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Post by Shasta Cohen on Sept 17, 2007 21:24:28 GMT -5
As she kissed him back everything seemed to fade into an okay fantasy... there were no problems and it was just her and Matt. She liked that fantasy, "What do you say we get off this bridge?" She asked after the kiss ended.
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