Dead

A deep booming laugh filled my thoughts and Maui pulled me up from where I lay on the deck of his ship.

Did you see her? Heeny, did you see? He never even saw her and bam! She took him right out. He sighed and sat back. Glorious. She’s just glorious. A big dopey smile adorned his laughing face.

"I could have used her a minute earlier." Phantom pains from my chest and broken bones twinged and pricked.

But now we get to hang out. He beamed at me.

"Possibly forever. I messed up big time, Maui."

You sure did.

"What are the odds I make it out of here?"

Once again, you miss the point, Heeny.

"And what’s that?"

You’re being protected, not punished. You will not be lost.

"I’m right here."

I’m here too.

"I really wish you were."

We both lay on the deck of his ship and watched the sky. The sun was bright on the water and yet somehow the stars shone bright above in a purple black sky. I lay back and watched the familiar constellations wheel in their slow arcs.

"You’re not here. You left." The skies faded.

I lost.

I hated him.

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No. I loved him.