Angel Beats! Reunited

Chapter 2
Must Be

Moe had a sneaking suspicion about the students, and she was right. No matter what she did, the students did not care. No matter how obnoxious she was the students would not react. No matter whom she asked, no one would confirm that Moe had in fact died. As the day was coming to an end, Moe was tired of it all. She had skipped out on class right when the teacher was preparing for a history lesson. Moe announced she was going to the bathroom, and fled to the roof.

Skipping class was not uncommon for Moe, even before everything changed. She had never been thrilled about going to school. Her unusually small size, and slow learning abilities made her the target of most nasty rumors. Moe was fairly good at sports, but her low grades prevented her from ever joining a club. There were days in her life when Moe felt that she was worthless. If it had not been for the encouragement of her older sister, Moe would have committed suicide a long time ago.

The memory of the day Moe's sister walked in on her poorly executed suicide attempt sent chills down her spine. Her sister was horrified, but not in the least bit judgmental. After that Moe spent every possible moment she could by her sister's side. Moe often spent hours at the restaurant where her sister worked. She had finally accepted that her life, however socially unacceptable she was, had meaning. Then the accident happened. Moe and her sister were driving home after work had ended when a speeding pickup truck hit their small electric car, and the next thing she knows, Moe is sitting in a classroom of an unfamiliar school wearing a uniform she had not dressed herself in.

"I must be going crazy." Moe thought to herself. "Either that or I'm dead and this is some sort of personal hell I've been dragged to." As she looked over the edge of the very tall building, Moe had a brilliant idea.

"If I am dead," she said aloud, even though she was sure no one else was listening "I can jump over the edge head first, and nothing will happen to me. I'll just get up and walk away. If I'm not dead, then when I hit the ground I'll die, and I don't have to live in this freakish hell anymore."

Moe thought it was a brilliant plan. As she climbed up onto the ledge and closed her eyes to prepare herself to jump, she heard a voice. This voice clearly did not come from within her own mind considering that it sounded like a boy instead of Moe's own voice.

The voice said, "You're completely wrong you know. Just because you're dead doesn't mean it won't hurt." Moe brushed the warning off as a figment of her imagination and leaped head first off the roof. There was a crushing pain as she hit the ground before Moe blacked out.