“Shhh…” I whispered as best I could, “I’m here,” laying her head on my shoulder.

“I hurt…” she spoke back in a delicate tone making me feel even worse as the life drained from both of us.

“I know baby,” was all I could manage as I wrapped my one free hand around her waist, holding her as close as possible…feeling her last breath, her last heart beat and hearing her last I love you as her body fell limp against me and as I lay there soaked in my blood and hers I stared up at the ceiling with a weak smile, “See you in heaven…” I spoke against her now chilling cheek as my eyes fell closed and everything around me faded to black.

XXXX

LA was booming, cars parked everywhere or stop and going in the streets. People lined the sidewalks and littered the cross walks so basically a normal day in the busy city. Across town, in the not so nice neighborhood but not the bad side of town either, sat a very nice boardwalk with an arcade, small amusement park and a Hard Rock Café, this was the hang out for most of the middle class adults and kids. The sun was dropping off into the sea casting a deep orange and red light across the water and onto the wooden boardwalk which was already busting to life.

The wind picked up, blowing things this way and that, so it was no surprise when a hat flew from its owners head. Tumbling down the dock, a pair of jean clad legs chasing after; arms stretched trying to catch the object before it disappeared out into the water. The owner yelled excuse me or sorry to the mass of citizens getting in the way of the two being reunited. Being a few inches behind the owner reached as far as possible before the converse covered feet tripped over the laces, which had come untied like a thousand times before hand cause no matter what the owner of the shoes couldn’t keep them tied even if the shoe laces had been put in knots. Falling flat on the wood beneath, hard.

“Is this yours?” a velvet voice purred above. The hat had landed at the feet of a stranger, the owner stared at the sandal clad feet, than swept upward, over tanned toned legs, to the sun dress that flowed in the wind covering the stranger from just above the knees and up, to supple beasts hidden behind the dress and up to chocolate brown orbs that seemed to smirk at the owner. The girl looked about seventeen, bent down retrieving the hat from her feet.