Future

                                    

                                          


                          
            
                          
...With incredible speed the monster is beside us and grabbing at the face of the boy I love. "Turn around and open your mouth!" it commands, and to my horror I see that my beloved is obeying him. He lets my hand go and without a word turns toward the monster. 
                          
Now he will open his mouth. "No!" I scream, and I clutch him from behind. I pinch his hand, his arm, trying to get him to come out of his trance, but nothing happens. I kiss the back of his head and speak to him in the tongue of angels, but I am unsuccessful. When at last the monster makes a noise, I just keep praying to Heaven and put my hands under the pullover of my boyfriend. There I claw into his skin. My hands go around his chest and I feel his regular heartbeat. I am terribly afraid, but I know I have no chance against that unnatural way of dying. I can do nothing ... and I feel helpless. But at the same time I get furious. But I do not stay that way for long, my rage turns into resignation. If he has to die, then he should take me with him, I think. If I press myself very close to him – till we are one – we will perish together. That is what I want ...
                          
His heartbeat changes. Boom, boom, boom, boom, now it is throbbing loudly and quickly against my hand. Is he afraid?? 
                          
"I'm with you!" I whisper. "Nobody can separate us. It'll turn out well!" I keep talking. Again I concentrate on his heart. My concentration is so strong that I have the feeling that our two hearts are beating in unison. Now we are one! Nobody can get between us. Never again, because we are together.
                          
Only when his body collapses do I notice that that is not at all right. We are not one! No! There is only a beating heart there, and it does not belong to my sweetheart. Suddenly his heart is still. Absolutely still!