QUOTE (Shush_rules @ May 30 2008, 05:56 AM)

This one is pretty bad ass
I don't think that all urban legends are scary. I remember the one of the woman driver who offered to give a man a push when his car wouldn't start. He told her that he had an automatic transmission and they would have to go 45 miles an hour for the car to start. He was confused when she drove away without helping him but then saw that she had gone around the block and was coming straight toward him at 45 miles an hour. Not scary . . . a little funny but not scary.
Considering that, let us deal with Alice Templeton who has lived at the white marble mansion at the edge of town. Her father was very successful in his business dealings and the family enjoyed all the luxuries of life. But then, about four years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Templeton were killed in a yachting accident and Alice and her older brother and sister were left alone. Ronald and Susan, her siblings, joined her in her mourning.
There was a reading of the will soon after and it was discovered that Mr. Templeton had left his entire fortune and properties to Alice. He made the intent of his bequeath very clear. "Because Alice has a severe problem with her heart, there is the distinct possibility that she will need money in the future for her medical care. Recognizing the seriousness of her health problem, we ask that she prepare a will and leave all our properties and funds to her siblings after her death."
Alice had been on the list for heart donors for years and each year she seemed to deteriorate a little more. But after her parents death, she tried to live a normal life and entered the university to study. It was there that she met Raul Vazquez, a foreign student in the same program that she studied. He was kind and understanding and Alice enjoyed being with him. When weeks passed and he started to show a more serious interest in her, however, she took him to a park where they sat on a bench while she revealed the problem of her health. "I don't know how much longer I have to live," she confessed. "Any minute . . . y'know?"
Raul nodded and took her hand. "That one minute would be my eternity," he told her. "I love you and whatever time we have, let it be lived in love."
Alice was never so happy but not long after she suffered a setback and was hospitalized. Raul sat at her bedside constantly and it annoyed Ronald and Susan very much. On one occasion when Raul had left the room, they confronted Alice.
"Alice, you haven't prepared the will like Dad asked. Now we don't want to be cold or cruel but we are concerned that you might want to leave something to Raul. You can't do that. That's not what Dad had in mind, do you understand?"
Alice was hurt and disappointed but nodded as Raul returned.
In the days that followed, her condition worsened and then one day when she awoke, Raul was gone. She waited for him all day but he did not return. At last, late in the afternoon, he called and said that he had read in the newspaper that there had been an auto accident in a nearby city. He had gone to talk to the family of a man who had died in the accident to ask them to donate his heart. The widow said that her husband's heart was also weak and to donate it would not be a good idea. Raul said that he was investigating other opportunities and for Alice not to worry . . . he loved her and was doing everything possible to help.
"So where is your great boyfriend now?" asked Ronald that evening. "When you need him most he runs out on you?"
"You can't really be serious about this guy," chimed Susan. "My God, Alice, he's from some poverty stricken place in Latin America! You think you have anything in common with him?"
Alice did not respond but only turned on her side away from both of them.
Three days later Raul had not returned and the attacks of Ronald and Susan continued. Susan brought a copy of a will for Alice to sign but it rested on the bedside table as Alice remained silent.
That evening Alice felt uncomfortable and experienced some chest pains. The doctors rushed to her room and monitored each vital sign. At last one announced to Ronald and Susan that the end was near. Susan called for the family attorney to come to convince Alice to sign the will.
It was shortly before two in the morning when the group of doctors returned with a sense of urgency. Some had been called from their beds at home and were pulling on their white coats.
"Is she?" asked Susan, "you know . . . is she . . ."
The doctor smiled. "Not at all. We have a heart. We're going to the operating room."
It was one day short of a week later that the same doctor announced that Alice would have a normal life. She would probably live another 50 or 60 years and the timing of the donated heart was nothing short of a miracle.
Alice waited for Raul to call to tell him the good news and was confused that Ronald and Susan did not visit as regularly as before.
She had returned home to the mansion when the doctor came for one of her periodic examinations. He nodded with satisfaction as he checked each signal of her heart's function.
"I think you're strong enough now," he said at last. "I have something for you."
He handed her an envelope.
"My darling Alice,
I don't want you to be angry with me for what I have done. I had no choice.
You would have always had my heart anyway, so this is no different.
I love you always.
Raul"
The doctor looked toward the floor. "They found two notes beside the body, Alice," he said. "One note said to rush his heart to you and this is the other. He called 911 just before he did it. A pistol. He didn't want to damage the heart, the bullet went into his head."