Outlaw Star Fan Fiction ❯ One Mistake ❯ The Funeral ( Chapter 2 )

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Melfina had run all the way past five blocks before she stopped and
was out of breath. When she finally got here breathe back, she lifted
her head up toward the sky and felt the early signs of rainfall upon
her face. (Great even the sky is depressed, that just makes me want to
jump for joy.) Melfina decided to go to Starwind+Hawking, get her
stuff, jack some hell of a lot of cash, run away and swear to never
fall in love again. Well... she would do the first three, because
could do the last thing right now. Again, she lifted her to face the
heavens and shouted that the top of her lungs.

" I swear as god, the stars and the rain as my witness... I will never
fall in love again and be hurt again!!!! " The tears from the hurt
started to run down her face again but now they had a purpose, they
were there to show her that she could never put so much faith in a
person without being hurt. She sprinted the rest of the block and
stopped at the crosswalk to wait with other people to cross. Among
these people was a girl about the same height, body build and the same
raven dark hair. She was also wearing a white dress; the light turned
green and they started to walk across the street. However, a drunk
driver going about 65 miles in hour ran right into the middle of the
group. The raven hair girl was first to be hit and killed, her face
messed up so bad you couldn't recognize her. Also to be killed were an
old man and his wife, teen-age boy with bleached blond hair who had a
pair of headphones. Last, to be severely hurt was a single mother. The
infant survived, barely but she did just like her mother. The mother
would mostly die in the hospital soon. Melfina had survived with a
broken arm and a spilt lip. One of the people to see it right before
was the teen-ager and he had pushed her out of the way just in time.

In that spilt second after the crash, Melfina's heart hardened and she
just remembered how many times Gene had gone to a bar alone and driven
home drunk. A new hatred for Gene enveloped it self in her heart. For
he could have done this at anytime and just never had told her... or
anyone for that matter. When she was almost died because of this, she
lost her warm, loving not knowing of the world and discovered it was a
cruel, harsh place. Something very small changed inside of her, but
now she was different she was much more interstanding of the world.

She finally saw the child, lying in the road crying for a loss it
didn't know was there. A thought formed in her mind and in an instant
she had made her way to the to help any way she could. When she got
there, she saw the mother holding her child beckoning Melfina over.
When she got over there, she had to lean over and put her ear to the
mother's lips to hear what she was saying.

" Can you please take my child and raise her as your own... Please do
this for me..." she whispered to Melfina. She was about to answer that
she couldn't, but hen she saw the look of desperation.

" Yes, I will treat her as my own and take care of her for the rest of
my life..." she finally answered after she had thought about it for a
few seconds.

" Thank you, I trust you and I thank you again, And may God bless you
with what ever you could want..." and with her last bit of strength
she held the child out to Melfina. With the most tenderness ever she
took the child and slowly rocked her to sleep. When she had turned
back to the mother, she saw her eyes closed and a content look on her
face. While she helps her new child with one arm, with the other hand
she checked for a pulse, there was none. She was about to turn and run
away, but when she was about to turn away, something caught her eye.
It was a silver necklace that read the words LOVE-FOREVER; she
unclipped the back of it and put it in her pocket. Still holding the
child, she turned to face the block and ran as fast as she could to
her destination.

It was 2 hours later after Melfina ran out and the party was over.
Gene had not moved for that spot on the floor. After the first hour,
Jim had called the cops and told them what she looked like and what
street they were on. He had also told them that if they found her, for
them to bring her back to the hotel. Jim had informed Gene of what he
had done; Jim was now pacing around the room while in deep thought.
(When are they going to call us and where is she right now.)?

Ring... Rin Gene was watching the news but as soon as he heard the
phone ring, he threw himself on top of the phone. Jim as so ran over
to get it and when he saw Gene get it, he went to go turn down the
television. But he stopped and his mouth fell open, face when deathly
pale and he collapsed on the floor in dead shock.

"Jim, that was Iris calling to say that is happy for some reason...
She didn't say, but she told me to watch the news right now... Oh my
god what is the matter Jim."

"Gene... There was a car crash about 5 blocks up from here, there were
five people killed." Jim answered slowly, his head down and body
shaking.

"Soooo what does that have to do with Melfina..." Gene replied
questionlying to him.

" It happen a couple of minutes after she ran out the door."

" And once again, soooo... please inform me what does this have to do
with Melfina" questioned Gene, his voice trembling with not very
hidden rage.

" And... They found her body there. She had changed her outfit, but
they were sure it was her." Jim answered finally, just before he ran
up to his hotel room and slammed the door with such force that it
shook the house and most likely the whole block. The whole time Gene
was standing there in shock of what had just happened. Only one
thought ran through Gene's mind... (Melfina's dead, she's dead because
I was such a bastard got drunk and had sex with another woman on my
wedding night. We weren't even married for 5 hours, but still it
killed her. No I killed her and there is nothing I can do to bring her
back.) He then collapsed on the floor in a dead faint and he thought
no more.

The funeral was for all the people who died in the car crash at the
same time. The Outlaw Star crew were all there, but none of them had
anything to say up front so they just stood there and listen to the
stories from the other people. The accident was a hit and run, they
never said he was drunk because they didn't know. No one knew... Gene
was staring to space with his own thoughts the whole time, Jim was
crying softly, Ashi was sending looks full of hated at Gene and Suzuka
was praying for Melfina's soul to rest in peace. During the whole
funeral, Gene let not one tear fall and by the time it was over, his
eyes were glassy and were red around the edges. A few minutes after
the funeral, the Outlaw Star was already in space.