I have a short story 0_o

Please read it. I will be the HAPPIEST if I get comments. Maybe I will put it up on fanfiction.net if it's deemed worthy. I have never written anything since my pokemon fanficiton back in the day. But I was just *inspired* today at work, just thought of this article I read a while back on the internet. In Japan, people post on a message board to meet places and commit sucicide together, so they don't die alone. I'm not kidding. I thought that article was very thought-provoking, and this suddenly came to me 0_o. I promise it won't take you long, it is short. Only spent like an hour typing it out. And I know my style is different ^_^**. No, I don't *always" only use quotes, I just thought it fit this story, and I hate description...

Okay, here it is. I'm sorry, I don't know how to mess with LJ enough to make it clickable...

Makikokun: Hey.
Dark Avenger 80: hi
Makikokun: I read your request on dietogether bbs
Dark Avenger 80: oh?
Makikokun: I’m willing to be your death mate
Dark Avenger 80: great. where should i meet you?
Makikokun: You live in the St. Lewis area, don’t you?
Dark Avenger 80: yeah… can you get there?
Makikokun: Where?
Dark Avenger 80: meet me at the corner of west and 3rd street. i can drive you from there…
Makikokun: Right. What time?
Dark Avenger 80: 11 pm alright?
Makikokun: That’s fine.
Dark Avenger: i gotta go now. i'll meet you there tomorrow.
Makikokun: okay. See you.
Dark Avenger 80: bye
Dark Avenger 80 signed off at 9:03:42 PM.
Makikokun: Let’s just hope I can redeem myself…
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“Hey”
“Hey, come on in”
“It’s raining. Nice day to kill ourselves, don’t you think?”
“Yup. Our blood running down the street , washing away into the gutters.”
“Heh, you’re morbid.”
“I’m suicidal, what do you expect.”
“Yeah… I couldn’t tell if you were a guy or girl. I thought you were a guy ‘cause you had the “kun” suffix, but then your Screen Name was also ‘Makiko’”
“Heh, I do that to confuse people. You Japanese?”
“Half. My real name is Kensuke, but most people just call me Ken…”
“My name is May.”
“So where are we going?”
“Right, let me start up the car…”
“Ah, woods…”
“Good spot, no one comes there… I used to go with my dad, driving down this road a lot.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah… that was before they divorced. Used to go driving a lot with my dad then… Just me and him”
“I’m sorry.”
“Hey, that was a while ago…”
“Yup no one will find us HERE”
“Heh. That is the point…”
“So, you got them?”
“Yeah, let me take them out…”
“Altoids tin, creative.”
“Thanks.”
“So, you sure those things are lethal?”
“Definitely. Positive. It will be a quick death. No bloody mess, just a quick sleep…”
“Oh…”
“I can see you’re not jumping out to swallow them first. Want me to?”
“Wait. Can you tell me something?”
“Sure.”
“Why do you want to kill yourself?”
“You really want to know? You’d think it’s a stupid reason”
“Naw, just shoot.”
“My girlfriend dumped me.”
“That’s IT?”
“… Pretty much. Told you that you wouldn’t like the reason.”
“Hehe. That is a dumb reason to kill yourself, no offence…”
“It’s okay. Hey, I thought love could save me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Never mind…”
”It’s okay, you can tell me. You’ll be dying with me in the next couple of minutes anyway. Might as well get everything off your chest.”
“I’ve been chronically depressed since I was 15.”
“What happened when you were 15?”
“My grandfather died. We were real close… closer than I had been to my parents, anyway. But before then, I’d just thought it was teenage hormones. I mean all teenagers are depressed, right?”
“I guess…”
“Anyway, after he died, my ‘teenage hormones’ got worse ten fold. I didn’t want to eat, sleep, function, or do anything. And I fucking cried all the time…”
“I’m sorry… but wasn’t that to be expected, I mean your grandfather did die…”
“Yeah, but it didn’t end. After a month of that, my parents took me to the shrink. He prescribed some shit and I started taking it. Actually felt a bit better… Never had a girlfriend though, from just pure shyness until I was twenty. Then I met Zaira… been with her for two years. I loved her more than anything, really.”
“And she broke up with you.”
“Yeah… a week ago, after a real nasty fight. She just plain told me she was more than SICK of fighting with me, and didn’t want me anymore.”
“Jeez, I’m really sorry…”
”I still love her.”
“Yeah… What about you? What brings you here?”
“Shit, where do I start? My parents kicked me out of the house when I was 18…”
”Why? They’re just assholes. Always been lousy parents. We’d just get into these insane fights that ended the same. Me storming off and leaving to live with my friends for a few days. Eventually, they told me that if I was going to keep leaving like that, I could just leave forever. So I did.”
“Wow. Where did you go?”
“ For about a year, I stayed with different friends, moved around a bit… when I FINALLY get enough money to move in somewhere, I get evicted in a few months.”
“Oh jeez, why?”
“Landlord’s a fucking asshole, motherfucker. Don’t even get me STARTED on him. I fucking hated him.”
“Oh…”
“Anyway, at first, I thought, fuck him, I’ll find a better place. But you know how INSANE housing is down here. I could NOT find a fucking place. At all. And none of my friends could house me anymore.”
“Damn. That sucks… I don’t know what else to say.”
“I hate my job, I can’t go to school to get a better one, because I have to work to keep the damn rent up, NO ONE helps me… I just basically HATED my life a whole lot before this, and now I’m left homeless in a matter of days, so I just say ‘fuck this, I want a fucking end.’”
“Damn, you have so much of a better reason than me. “
“I must say, I do…. Listen to me, Ken”
“Yeah?”
“Why the hell are you going to kill yourself over shit like this? So the girl wasn’t ‘the one’. There will be others!”
“I don’t think so.”
“Why, you are a nice guy, I can already tell, even though I’ve known you for like what, an hour? Nice guys like you are just hard to find. Trust me, I know. You will get more girls than you want going after you.”
“…”
“Ken, listen. I’m right. You can’t end your life because of one girl. If you still really love her like you say you do, think of how she’d feel when she finds out you’re dead.”
“…”
“… You’re crying.”
“She won’t care.”
“What makes you say that?”
“Because she said she wants nothing to do with me. And she has kept her word so far.”
“She’s just mad right now…”
“I don’t think so. She hates me, she’d probably love to see me dead.”
“Now I KNOW this isn’t true.”
“Yes it is.”
“No. You know what would happen when she finds out what you did to yourself? She’d blame HERSELF on this. Even though I don’t think it was her fault. She would blame herself and want to die too. You want to be responsible for two deaths? Either that, or she’ll be fucked up for the rest of her life. She’ll be insanely depressed like you’ve been for the rest of her life. You say you still love her.”
“I do.”
“Then don’t do this. Don’t do this for HER.”
“…”
“Shit… I’m sorry…”
“I’m sick of crying over her, I’m sick of laying in bed and thinking about what a worthless shit I am, I am so, so tired.”
“It’s okay… I can understand, I’m tired too. I know exactly how that’s like. It’s okay, Ken…”
“Thank you.”
“What?”
“Thank you for being here.”
“I’m glad I could be of use”
“Thank you for holding me.”
“It’s alright. I think that… I think that everyone needs to be held… even the most composed”
“That’s not me. I want to be held all the time. Sometimes, I really don’t even care who it is.”
“I promise to you that you will have someone to hold you again.”
“I hope you’re right.”
“You know… I very rarely think I’m completely right about something, but in this case, I know I am. I seriously do.”
“Okay…”
“Here let me see that.”
“… heh, out the window.”
“It’s where it belongs.”
“You changed your mind about death too, then?”
“Definitely. If I have the power to save your life, I have the power to save my own, no matter how shitty it is.”
“I’m glad”
“Let’s go back now.”
“Okay.”

***
“Here we go.”
“Thanks.”
“You can get home from here?”
“Yeah, I live close by…”
“Sure you don’t need a ride?”
“No thank you, I’m fine.”
“Okay…May?”
“Yeah?”
“I wanted to thank you again… for saving my life.”
“I’m glad to have done that. But promise me something.”
“Yeah?”
“Please, never try that again, no matter how hard it is to want to keep alive.”
“I will promise”
“Thank you.”
“But you have to promise the same.”
“I will. I promise”
“I will keep in tough through AIM, okay?”
“Right. I’ll be on. Good bye, Kensuke”
“Bye.”
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Makikokun: Hey.
Chizaro: Hey there.
Makikokun: I read your request at die together bbs.
Chizaro: Cool. You going to be my death mate?
Makikokun: I’m hoping to.
Chizaro: Can you get to the Dallas area, then?
Makikokun: Yeah, I live nearby.
Chizaro: Great, I’ll bring the pills then.
Makikokun: 9 pm tomorrow, fine?
Chizaro: Sure. Meet me at 2045 Market Avenue, okay?
Makikokun: Will do. See you then.
Chizaro: bye
Makikokun signed off at 7:24 pm