20 Chapter 20 (1/2)

”Farewell.” she said, and there was silence.

”No!” I yelled, and kicked the door. Only then I noticed that the door wasn't actually locked, there was something behind the door that kept it from opening. Idil had intentionally done that. That meant I could enter the room if I had enough energy.

I was no longer thinking logically about whether it would make any difference in our fate. Something was pushing me to act with only my emotions. I kept kicking and pushing the door to open it using brute force. But it was no use... The object standing behind the door was a bit too heavy.

Just then, the building started to shake violently again. Another earthquake... 'The curse' wouldn't give us a break, even now. Although I was shaken, the earthquake helped me force the door open a little. The heavy objects behind the door moved a little backwards, and I could create a gap where I could peek inside the room.

I looked inside the room. What I saw wasn't very pretty.

Idil was preparing to cut her own wrist with a knife. It was undoubtedly a painful way to suicide, but perhaps this was the best way she could try in there. We both knew it had to be done, but still... My heart was in control of my body now, and I just couldn't let her go.

With all my strenght, I pushed the door once again. I enlarged the gap until I could slip inside the room. I rushed inside to stop her, and held her arms.

”Let go!” she screamed.

”I can't!” I replied. ”I won't!”

”What is it are you trying to accomplish?” she asked me. ”Just when I was brave enough, why would you stop me?”

”I'm sorry...” I told her. Deep inside, I knew she was right. She was right to be angry... But I couldn't take my control back from the intense emotions.

”I can only hope we will meet again somewhere, sometime.” she said, calmly. ”But let go, we can't be any helpful to people by reaching the next morning. And believe me... If I see the sunrise ever again, I will never forgive you.”

My grip on her arms loosened, but with intense pain.

”Please don't look at me. I can't do it seeing your expressions...” she said.

Slowly and unwillingly, I turned around. I looked down for a moment, and closed my eyes.

I heard a deep sigh behind me.

I couldn't see her, but I could still feel her trembling.

...

The building started to shake again, but this time, it was worse than any previous earthquake we had experienced. I started losing my balance, so I opened my eyes. Suddenly, the floor was gone. I found myself weightless. The room was collapsing on to the lower floor. I bent my knees a little to soften my fall. I would try to drop and roll as I reach the lower floor, but I didn't have time to perform the manuever.

- - -

I regained consciousness soon afterwards. I was laying down on a piece of debris, and there was a chunk of cement on my chest. My chest and back was hurting badly, and I could see my body bleeding from various spots. My damaged hand had started to ache pretty badly. I lifted the cement block with my healthy hand and got up.

”Idil!” I yelled. She appeared from somewhere inside the classroom we had fallen into.

”Things just have to go the wrong way.” she said. ”I can't even properly kill myself.”

”I wouldn't complain about that.” I said.

We heard a loud explosion from the hallway. The door of the classroom was blown out of it's place. I ran outside into the hallway. The walls had been damaged, and the nearby classroom was on fire.

”Somebody really hates us.” she said.

I was walking towards the classroom to take a look, but Idil held me back.