last kiss
author: gcloserfreak//rightcoastpunk
age: 15
finished/not finished: completed
if finished, # of chapters: 1
rating (g, pg, pg13, r, nc-17): pg
summary: if you've heard the song, you know the story

Benji drove down the highway, carefully watching the road and sometimes squinting because it was beginning to rain heavily. He smiled as he heard his girlfriend Catherine's voice singing along to the radio.

"Like the song Catty," Benji asked smiling.

"This song is so great, and I love the way Eddie Vedder's voice sounds." She smiled and tucked her newly died purple hair behind her ear. "Although I always thought you'd do a better job."

Benji laughed and smiled. "Oh yea, my voice is oh so much better than *sigh* Eddie Vedder's!" The two laughed and Catty playfully pushed his arm. "So did you enjoy the movie Catty?"

She sighed and nodded. "Yea, I really liked it. Too bad Pearl Harbor is a chick flick." She laughed and curled up in the seat, taking off her seat belt to do so. Benji sighed happily as he heard her drift off to sleep. Not thinking, he quickly looked down at her and smiled. Then he drifted his eyes back to the road. Ahead in the road was a car that had broken down. In a panick, he swerved into the opposite lane, right towards the oncoming traffic.

The next things went by too fast for Benji to remember. He remembers the car hitting an object and going airborne, then glass and a painful scream.

Slowly Benji opened his eyes and felt the rain beating down on him. He felt a warm liquid fall down his face, and realized he has a gash on his head, and it was badly bleeding. Then he remembered the scream. He jumped up and moved past the people that had surrounded him. He saw another group of people and pushed through them to see Catty lying on the ground, glass and blood surrounding her.

Benji lifted her and set her into his lap. He began to cry and scream. "CATTY! NO, GOD DAMMIT, CATTY??" Her eyes fluttered open a little and she looked up at Benji.

"Benji, hold me...." She told him, barely in a whisper. He could see the tears falling down her cheeks despite the rain that was falling harshly down. He leaned down and kissed her tears and made down and kissed her lips.

"Don't leave me Catty, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to crash, please? I am sorry. See, I mean it so come back!" Benji held her closer and kissed her lips deeply once more as he felt her body go limp.

She was dead.

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Two months later, Good Charlotte was onstage on the last date of their tour with MxPx. The fans had all known what happened to Catty, and they all knew Benji still had not fully recovered. He didnt seem to have as much energy anymore...

After they did "Little Things", Benji walked up to the mic.

"Hey guys, I just would like to thank you all for being here, and I have a special treat for ya's." He started strumming a few chords and began to sing a song that he never thought he'd sing.....

"Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road straight up ahead
A car was stalled the engine was dead
I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screaming tires the busting glass
The painful scream that I heard last

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

When I woke up the rain was pouring down
There were people standing all around
Somethign warm flowing through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head she looked at me and said
Hold me darling just a little while
I held her close I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew i have missed
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight
I lost my love my life that night

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

Woh
Woh
Woh
Woh
Woh
Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
Ohh
Ohh.....

Benji strummed the last chord and fell to his knees on stage. He then began to cry. He cried for him, he cried for Catty, and he cried for the ring he gave her on that night........

THE END



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dream vs reality
author: Atarie
age: 17
story title: Dream VS Reality
finished/not finished: Finished
if finished, # of chapters: 3
rating (g, pg, pg13, r, nc-17): pg13

chapter one

Benji climbed through the window in Atarie's bedroom. Atarie was Benji's best friend(an:ok, not in real life, but oh well), and he desperately needed to talk to her.

Her alarm read 3:30 A.M, so he instantly knew she was asleep. Tears streaked down his face as he desperately shook her awake. Atarie mumbled and turned on the light.

Squinting, she stared at Benji. "Benji.....what's going on? Is everything okay?"

Benji bit his bottom lip and stood up, crying. He unzipped his jacket and spread open his arms....."Atarie....I...." He looked down at his clothes. "I....."

Atarie opened her mouth to scream but Benji had covered her mouth, realizing that she would. "Please..." he said in between sobs.

On his clothes were blood. His shirt was still soaked with it. And he reeked of alcohol. "Oh my god Benji....what....." Atarie started to cry. "What did....you do? What happened?" She edged away from him and stood in the corner.

"I...." he started to say,"I don't exactly know...listen..me and the guys got drunk and....I got pissed and....Joel got in the way...and I passed out. But when I woke up..." He was on her bed now, crying, trying to tell what happened in between sobs. "When I woke up... Joel was a few feet away and....the carpet was soaked in blood...and the kitchen knife was embedded in his...."

"OH MY GOD SHUTUP!" Atarie threw herself to the ground sobbing and covering her ears. "Shutup Benji!! You're lying!" She pounded her fist on the soft baby blue carpet. "You're lying to me.. playing a prank....Please.....?"

Benji sat up, biting his bottom lip again, a habit he formed as a child when scared or frightened. "No, Atarie. This isn't a joke. I...killed Joel...." He twitched and for a moment, when Atarie looked into his eyes, he seemed insane. But that look was gone just as quickly as it came.

chapter two

Atarie stared blankly ahead as she drove Benji over to his house, where this had happened. She was no longer crying, but thinking that she had to save Benji. Someone was going to find out that he killed Joel, and if the rest of the group remembered, Benji would be in jail for a long time.

And Atarie loved Benji with all her heart. He was like a brother to her, and she couldn't just let him be taken away.

Benji was going hyterical though. "What are we going to do about Paul and Billy and Aaron?! They were there....they saw. What if they remember? Oh God..I don't want to go to jail, Atarie. What are we going to do? We should just..."

But Atarie didn't hear him. She was off thinking about what she wnated to do. "We have to get rid of them," she said, interrupting Benji. "It's the only way. They've got to go."

Benji looked at her, "Are you out of your mind?! We can't do that! that's just as bad as me killing Joel..."

"Well guess what? You just fucked up your life. Badly. And I love you too much to see you put in jail. I am going to save you, Benji, from that." It was as if that seeing a glimpse of benji's crazy side, Atarie went psycho. She was obsessed with Benji's safety.

Running a red light, and speeding, they made it to Benji's house within ten minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. They walked into his house, and Benji lead Atarie upstairs to the bathroom where Joel had tried hiding from Benji when he pulled the knife on him.

Atarie almost threw up from the stench of freshly spilled blood. The whole tiled bathroom floor was covered in it, and there was some on the sink and in the bathtub, where Joel's body laid.

She forgot to be digusted and turned to Benji. "Benji, go downstairs, get the mop, towels, whatever, just clean up this blood before it gets to the hallway carpet.

Benji was running down the stairs and on his way to the kitchen as he said to himself, "What am I getting myself into? Atarie's gone crazy... What am I gonna do?" Again he bit his lip.

Turning the corner into the kitchen, someone grabbed him and gagged him and threw him to the floor.

chapter three

Benji yelped with surprise, a foot stepped onto his chest. Looking up, he saw Aaron. "Benji..your nuts...dude, you're coming with us..." Paul and Billy came out from the other room.

"Benji, dude, we need to talk," Aaron said as they attempted to drag Benji outside to the back yard and into the shed. "You're fucked up dude."

They uncovered his mouth, but kept him tied up and sitting in a chair. Again Benji started to sob and cry and plead.

"What the hell dude, what the hell is going on?" Billy said, tears forming in his eyes. "That was your own brother!!! How the hell could you do that?!"

Paul was shaking. "What are we going to do? Joel's dead..Benji killed him..but we can't just turn in Benji!"

Aaron looked from one guy to the next. "You're right, we can't. Hmmm.." He stepped towards the other side of the shed and grabbed a screw driver. "Maybe Benji here would like to feel the same pain his twin did. Being stabbed to death. This time though, with a screw driver. Or Benji, do you have any ideas?"

Paul and Billy looked at eachother with wide eyes, both wondering if Aaron was serious or not...and wondering how he could do that to a brother and a bandmate.

Billy walked up to Aaron and put his hand on his shoulder."Dude....calm down......don't be doin shit like this. Don't be sinking down to Benji's level.."

Aaron's eye twitched. He threw the screw driver against the wall. "We coul-" but stopped talking when the shed door slammed closed. Instantly, Billy ran up against the door and tried to open it, but it was locked from the outside.

"Atarie..." Benji said quietly. "She went crazy you guys. She's lost it...." And he started crying. God....., he thought, why did this happen to me? Why? I am so sorry....please...forigve me Joel..if you can hear me forgive me I'm sorry...Atarie I'm sorry.

Benji opened his eyes just to see the guys staring at him. He had been whimpering and mumbling for five minutes that he was sorry.

"Okay, boys. You're all plotting against me aren't you?!" Atarie was basically screaming outside of the shed. She sounded so insane. "What do you plan on doing now? Killing me? Too bad! I'm going to have to get rid of you all now..." Then there was silence.

Then there was a thumping sound on the side of the shed, and some shuffling noises. Then Atarie was on the roof of the wooden shed, they could hear her walking on top. Some thick liquid seeped down between the cracks...

"SHIT!!!" Paul yelled, as some dropped onto his arm. "Lighter fluid....."

The they heard something hit the ground, Atarie, and they heard the swiping noise and she striked a match, and she lit the shed on fire.

They heard footsteps....her running off...and smelled the burning wood.

It had became really hot, and all Benji could do was sit and cry and say how sorry he was...and cursing Atarie and himself for trusting her. The other guys stood there, and they started to laugh.

Benji sat up in bed.....and shook his head. "Oh my god...it was all a dream."

But when he looked out his window, there were ashes were the shed once stood, and in the bathroom was Joel's lifeless body, the floor covered in blood...and his clothes were soaked...and then Atarie stood by him and laughed, with that insane look in her eyes.