When I Can't Kiss You Anymore

Part 6

Riko's Pov:

I watched as Aiko's body was shot, one else, twice, three, four times. She screamed out for me but I couldn't do anything. I just stood there, watching her body relapse with each bullet, watching her scream for me with each pain. I ran over to her limp body, collapsing to the ground next to her sobbing. I gently held her head and placed it on my lap cradling her. I ticked a trans of hair off her face and behind her ear. I looked into her frozen open eyes, the dark forest green flooding me with memories. I picked up her hand placing it in mine for a final time.

"WHY! Why the hell did this happen to you?! I was supposed to protect to you, to keep you safe." I screamed. "It was gonna be me and you together against the world! What the hell was the whole suffer together for then? Tell me! FUCKING TELL ME!" I shook her cold body. "Why? Why you? Why did they have to take you away from me? What did I do to deserve this, why couldn't I have died instead? Why can't you be smiling in the fields with me? Sitting on our bench? Why couldn't I have saved you?" I whispered, crying into her blood stained shirt. "Why did it have to be you?" I leaned down and kissed her eyes shut, I kissed her head, I kissed her soft pale pink lips one last time. "I love you so, so much, promise you'll wait for me, okay?"

"Goodbye my love"

With that I broke down into a hysterical cry, screaming for Someone to help. In a few minutes, which felt like an eternity, the ambulances and police arrived. They took Aiko away and placed her into a plastic bag. That's all she got, a fucking plastic bag.

I walked out of the room, my head down staring at Aiko's fresh blood on my hands, I couldn't hear the screams and cries from parents as they hovered over their kids dead bodies. I found Aiko's sisters and my own brothers with our parents. I walked up to them, tears still flowing from my eyes.

"She's gone" I said in a low hushed tone. I looked up as I saw Aiko's mom crumple to the floor. She covered her mouth trying to muffle the sobs and screams escaping from it. Riko's dad kneeled down next to his wife, tears flooding his cheeks. I looked over at Mina and akira, they looked lost and broken. Akira ran into my arms, quickly followed by Mina. I pulled them into a tight hug, they smelled faintly of Riko, the soft mint shampoo. I cried with the girls, with her parents, with our families.