Clare Wu (9) | STAFF REPORTER
“Is this all just a game to you?” she sobbed, tears dripping down her face.
H.E was silent for a moment. “Yes”
She looked at him, fury and pain twin flames in her eyes.
“Everything we had?” she whispered, her voice cracking “all the stolen moments, the hours spent alone – It was all just a game to you?”
H.E schooled his face into impassiveness. “This started as a game, Ava, and it stayed one. I never promised you more.”
“And what about me? What about what you promised me?”
“You made me, Ava – we both knew it wouldn’t work. I’m tired of pretending, and I’m done with your crocodile tears.”
On the table, a timer goes off.
He turns, his hand already moving to pause it, when he felt her grab him, pulling him towards her.
“Oh, no” She snarled, her eyes wild, drying tears on her cheeks “No matter where your heart belongs, we are going to finish this”
“Ava-” he tried. “Ava, I thought we were over this. It’s just a game”
“Yes, it’s just a game. But it could be so much more. This is the Utopia that men can only dream of! This is the work of the Gods themselves. It’s almost done, H.E, how could you do this now? Don’t you want to be perfect? Don’t you want to help? Isn’t that what you blabber on and on about every day? We could help with this, H.E – we could save the world!”
H.E stared at her in horrified silence, realization slowly dawning on his features. In the background, the beeping went on, but this time, neither of them made a move to stop it.
“You’re insane,” he muttered, “Delusional. This would break apart life as we know it. I’m sorry Ava, but you need to be stopped.”
He reaches behind him, and she shoved a shelf over, shattering crystal pieces of glass. Lunging for him with that desperate, crazed light in her eyes.
“NO!”
H.E watches sadly as his friend, his owner, his creator tumbles onto the thorns, painting blood red roses and crystal clear ice across the floor. H.E pulled the wires that connect to his heart, one by one – red, blue, black. His life source. His heart flickers once, twice, and H.E collapses. Dead.
In the distance, the beeping continued.
