Short Story

Short story


Sitting in a bar, all alone, no one to talk to. Chris Franco is 24 years old and has just gotten out of a serious relationship. With nobody talking to him its easy for Rachel to tell he is all alone. Rachel Littman is a single woman lean and athletic, 23 years old and she could get any man she wants, but she feels some kind of pity/attraction for Chris. Chris couldn’t have thought about dating for a long time, but anything can happen. Rachel decided to talk to him, “hey” she said. Chris didn’t notice Rachel until she came up to him, he didn’t realize how beautiful she was until he said hi back. They start talking about relationships and keeping them together when Chris buys a drink for Rachel and himself, and another, and another… They slept together that night Joe didn’t know what he was thinking, “its not time yet” he thought “I cant handle a relationship right now”. Chris couldn’t just blow her off, he couldn’t just leave her like that. As soon as Rachel woke up she asked if he wanted to go for dinner tonight, he had to say yes. That night he took her to a descent restaurant to eat, he was going to say something about the two of them not belonging together, but he thought she was a really interesting person. He wanted to keep going out, to just give it a shot. The two of them really hit it off that night so they decided to keep going out it got really serious. They ended up moving in together after about 4 months and had a great time with that after about another 8 months of living together, they loved each other so much that they decided to get married. They have the perfect wedding planned out in Los Cabos, Mexico. “the wedding is going to be perfect” said Rachel while planning the little finishing bits of the wedding and honeymoon. “I cant wait to spend the rest of our lives together” Chris replied, excited for the wedding, “it will be fantastic, perfect flowers, perfect catering, and the perfect place to have it all!” They were both very excited for the wedding but didn’t know what was coming. The wedding was 10 days away now and they were having no problems at all, it was going perfectly, just the way they wanted it to be. They both knew that they were going to stick with this, never back out of this relationship even with some rough patches, they wanted this to work. They leave for Mexico 5 days in advance to be sure everything is going as planned. They got to Mexico and first thing they went to the hotel, it was beautiful and much more then they expected. They got to the front desk and checked in. the nice woman at the desk bumped them up to the honeymoon suite for no extra cost. The next morning they were going to the spot that they were having the wedding, the grass was a vibrant green, it was a field and then looks to the ocean off of a cliff. They did some organizing with the wedding planner about where things go and who goes where. The next morning was busy but chris wanted to surprise Rachel by waking her up with the cake he had ordered but there was traffic on the bridge he thought that he could get by, by swerving in and out of the cars paths, but he thought that a better way of getting through it was taking the shoulder across the bridge and get past everyone, he took the shoulder and everything was fine. He would just turn into the lane as he came out of the shoulder. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds. He was not the only one to think of taking the shoulder route, one car swerved in to the shoulder right while he is there and has only one choice to dodge him… off the bridge. He didn’t try to go off the bridge but the other car sort of pushed him off and the car hit the water on the driver’s side. This all knocked him right out. People had seen the car fall off the bridge and lots of the locals dove in to get him out of the water, but not only for that reason. Most of the locals are poor, its not the wealthiest neighborhood so pretty much whoever gets there first gets his money, passport, credit card, and identity. A man named Juan found him first and took everything. Chris had only brought enough money to give for the cake, which wasn’t much. But he still had his wallet in which he always carried his credit card, always had at least $60 just in case, a gift certificate to Starbucks for $20 and a picture of Rachel. Juan decided to take everything of his and then take him to the hospital because he felt a pulse. The doctors thought that he would be in too much pain to they put him into an induced coma. Rachel still hadn’t gotten out of bed yet she usually doesn’t sleep in this late and should be waking up soon. The doctor wasn’t planning on doing much about Chris but he seemed nice so he kept him on bypass for him to survive. The doctors had never seen something like this, “falling off a bridge” the doctor exclaimed “how does someone do that” the doctors all agreed that it was stupid of him. Rachel had woken up now and was a little worried about Chris not knowing where he could have been. She went out looking for him and found out that he was going to pick up a cake from the wedding planner so she went to the pastry shop. She was on the bridge and the traffic had calmed down by now and she saw the huge hole in the guardrail and then saw their rental car getting pulled out of the water and knew what had happened, she was very scared and had contacted the hospital. They told her that a man showed up without any identification or money in his wallet and described him, she knew it was him. She got to the hospital and found that he was in a coma and not waking up. What the doctors hadn’t told her is that he was probably going to die in about 2 days. The doctors found it hard to tell her that he was going to die but they knew they had to. When she found out she couldn’t support herself and passed out for a brief moment. She had to take him back to Canada. On the way back in the plane, Chris had a seizure and died. They had nothing that they could do in the airplane because they didn’t have the resources to do what they needed to do, he was a lost cause. Skipping 3 years ahead. Rachel had forgotten about chris, so had everyone that had anything to do with the wedding. Nobody ever talked about him or mentioned him anymore.