MIND'S EYE

         It always begins with yelling.  Eleven-year-old Cristina Marie Woods lies awake up in her bedroom holding her stuffed monkey tightly.  Knowing that it’s her parents again, something still forces her up and into the hall.  At the top of the stairs Cristina can see her mom and dad in the living room screaming at the top of their lungs.  Born a telepath, Cristina uses her ability to tap into both her parents’ minds so she can calm them down.  Yet, their minds are so clouded by anger that neither of them notices her thoughts of plea. 
              Her father is accusing her mom of adultery as the mom defends herself.  In the middle of her mother’s defense, he pulls out a revolver and points it at her.  Surprised and skeptical that her husband has any conviction, she begins to taunt him as she shoves the pistol into her chest.  Cristina, still watching, begins to cry as her mother and father go at it with out any remorse.  The mother then pushes her father, his finger slips on the trigger and he shoots her in the heart.  Her body falls to the floor as she slowly dies.  Because of Cristina’s telepathic ability, her and her father both feel her mother slipping away.  At that moment, he realizes that Cristina witnessed the entire scene and that she is the reason for him feeling his wife’s death.  He then falls in a deep depression over what he just did.  They both stare at each other soaking in the situation.  Not being able to get out of the hopelessness that he feels, he makes his last decision.  The father raises the gun to his head.  Cristina tries to yell out but nothing comes out.  Whispering ‘I love you,’ he then pulls the trigger. 
              “BANG!!!” 
              A twenty-year-old Cristina wakes up in a pool of cold sweat.  It was a dream, the same dream she has been getting since that incident.  Not liking that thought, she gets out of bed whispering ‘damn’ to herself.  Noticing it is morning, Cristina begins to get dressed in her usual attire of tight heavy metal t-shirt, black jeans, black boots, and silver necklace with matching leather wristbands.  Her hair semi-neatly tied in a ponytail, she leaves her room to wander the halls of the giant building she calls a home. 
              After her parents died, she jumped from orphanage to orphanage not staying long because of her bad attitude.  Afraid of using her telepathic abilities to the fullest, Cristina would occasionally read someone’s mind to peek at what they thought of her.  If the thought was positive she would be their friend, but if it was negative Cristina would try to not be around them escaping confrontation.  She was cut loose from any obligation from the government when she was eighteen and began living on the streets for a while. 
              Almost a year later she found out about a program, which was looking for subjects to obtain information on the ability of telepaths.  A few tests were administered and when she past them Cristina was inducted into the program.  She and four others were moved into a giant two-story building with the title ‘Mind’s Eye Research’ on the outside wall.  The program consists of tests and classes to strengthen their telepathic abilities.  They also had to take educational courses on the Internet and exercise on a regular basis, because “a strong body is a strong mind,” the director of the program would say.  The down side of the program is that she and the rest cannot leave the research building for any reason.  The up side is the building itself, their accommodations had; their own private bedroom, kitchen with a chef, dining room, recreation room with a state of the art entertainment system, fully equipped gym, quick care hospital with nurse and an Olympic sized swimming pool and sauna.
              Inside the Mind’s Eye Research building, Cristina heads towards the dining area where she meets up with the other telepaths.  They are sitting around the table eating breakfast but they stop to say good morning to her.  She goes to the window that is between the dining area and the kitchen and she picks up her food.  She then sits with the rest of the group to listen in on their conversation.  Cristina is an introvert, who only speaks when the thing she is about to say is important.  At first meeting her, the other four thought she was a snob but later found she is the opposite. 
              Going clockwise from Cristina, they are, Brian Collins, a twenty-two year old painter with a middle-class upbringing.  He is dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, the uniform of his neighborhood.  He is a well-spoken person and a very nice guy, with a smile to melt your heart.  Next to him is Samantha Vance, the second youngest after Cristina whose shyness overpowers her intelligence.  Always in a bright summer dress that matches her up beat attitude.  Sitting to her left is Trevor Diaz, a charismatic young man living off his deceased parents wealth.  Wearing his Southern California attire, sandals, kaki shorts, and polo shirt.  Trevor’s tan is as sharp as his tongue; he speaks as if he’s practicing to become a lawyer.  Between Trevor and Cristina making a full circle is Ruby Abruzzo, the oldest one in her early thirties, every day she has the daunting task of trying to forget the death of her young son.  Living in a time that she never knew, her attire is of hippie Woodstock fashion.  Sandals, thin blouse, and about twelve cheap necklaces, her personality is of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, which coincide with Cristina’s.  They sit eating their breakfast and have a meaningless conversation about Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam, who was the real masters of grunge, to past the hour.
              On an average day, the volunteers would begin a day of tests and classes so the program could learn more about their abilities.  Except today, none of the scientists that administer the tests are not in their assigned rooms.  As the group searches the corridors, a familiar voice comes on the loud speaker.  It belongs to the director of the Minds Eye Research, Dr. Franklin Lukenbill; he is calling the group to take the elevator to the basement as he has a surprise for them.  The set of five do as requested and pile into the elevator, and head down to the basement, where everybody is waiting. 
              Stepping of the elevator Dr. Lukenbill greets them with too much enthusiasm.  The doctor is an overweight, middle-aged psychiatrist who is always excited to be in the same building as the telepaths.  He shakes each of their hands and walks them towards the scientists the group was looking for.  Which are; Dr. Hiroko Watanabe from Japan, Dr. Betty Martucci from Italy, Dr. Ki’ Jae Han from Korea, and Dr. Saraj Qazi from Egypt.  Also present listening to what Dr. Lukenbill is saying is the resident handy man George Navarro whose living quarters is in the basement next to the elevator.  Every member except for the telepaths, have a device on their head, a mind-scrambler devised by the late Dr. Victor Bruce Richards.  It stops the telepaths’ brain waves from entering the wearers mind.  All the employees of Mind’s Eye Research are obligated to wear mind-scramblers to enter the facility.
              Entering a room, the scientists and telepaths with the handy man stand around Dr. Lukenbill and listen.  He introduces them to the Mind’s Eye Ability Enhancer, as he flips the switch turning on the lights to reveal a long computer consol.  Three screens, two key boards, lit up buttons, and knobs are scattered over the consol.  Above it is a thick glass as long as the consol, over looking an enormous room with no corners.  Almost round but not quite, the walls are covered with metallic squares the size of a large dog in a tile like pattern.  Some of the telepaths joke that it reminds them of a giant honeycomb.  In the middle of the room is a robotic arm like crane that rises from the floor and attached at the end is a human sized pod.  The group stares at the object in confusion.
         Sitting at the helm of the consol is Dr. Lukenbill.  He explains that the Ability Enhancer “sends a small dose of electrical waves that interacts with the persons brain cells which in-turn induces those chemicals the telepaths use to tap into their telepathy, but it increases the amount of chemicals they would regularly have in a telepathic state.  The computer consol checks the subject’s vital signs in case of any complications, while the pod protects the person from any radioactive harm.  Conducting the process should take no longer then five minutes.  Test proves it to be harmless.” 
         After drawing numbers, Samantha becomes the first one to be administered.  She goes down into the ready-room and slips into a skintight anti-shock protective suit.  Samantha walks into the electricity controlling room and with the help of the doctors is put into the pod and connected to the sensors that will follow her vital signs.  When the doctors arrive back to the consol, they start the process.  The robot arm gradually raises the pod into the position and begins to slowly rotate.  Behind the walls, the generators begin and the electricity is directed to Samantha by synthetic waves created by the giant squares.  The generators get louder and louder, then the electric doses sinks into her head.  Inside, Samantha’s brain cells interact with the electricity and her telepathic ability switches on.  A rush of exhilaration over flows into her body and she gives out a smile.  After a couple of minutes, the program shuts off and Samantha is done.  She is taken to the recovery room and is put through several tests. 
         Samantha joins with her group and tries to describe what happened to her.  Again they draw numbers, and it falls upon Brian to be put through the process.  He successfully undergoes the procedure and he then tries to express what he felt in the pod.  Once again the numbers are picked and it’s Cristina’s turn to experience.  As she is fitted with the protective suit, a latecomer enters the consol room.  His name is Ted Wilcox, and he is the head of security at Mind’s Eye.  An ex-marine who none of the telepaths like because he acts as if he is still in the military.  Walking to Dr. Lukenbill, he whispers his reason for being delayed.  Then he stands with arms crossed staring into the E/C room as Cristina enters the pod.  The program then begins.
         Raised above the floor, the robotic arm rotates Cristina, as it should.  Next are the waves that her body cringes to.  Inside her head the electricity massages her brain cells as the chemicals flow through her mind.  She begins to feel what the other two were explaining, but then, unexpectedly, something goes wrong.  Cristina’s mind is jolted back.  She feels as if she’s falling.  Darkness overcomes her, when a loud crash opens her mind.  Fire blinds her as smoke from burning buildings enters her lungs.  She feels like coughing but nothing happens.  Her body does not respond to her wishes.  Cristina looks past the fire and notices a human being in the sky.  She concentrates on the person but could not get a fix on it.  Then her eyes begin to burn.  She closes them and she is mentally transported to another location.
         Cristina opens her eyes to blood.  The streets are covered with it.  People are screaming and running past her in horror.  She tries to touch one of them but passes through them.  Bodies are being dropped from the sky piling up in front of her.  Looking up she sees the same figure as before in the sky.  Cristina is then swept with the hundreds of people that are running.  They are stopped in their tracks by a sky scrapper that collapses in front of them.  The figure in the sky then points his finger at them and a giant wall of fire falls upon the masses.  Cristina could only stand and watch as she experiences each burning victim.    As the flesh is fried from the bodies, she could feel each one with precise pain.  She then crumples onto the floor.  She begins to cry but her tears do not quench the pain.
         Cristina’s mind is then shown the entire world all at once, all the pain, the suffering, and the deaths.  Every tortured soul is forever etched in her brain.  The lives of billions of people are extinguished with fire and destruction.    She is then taken to the ones responsible.  Underneath a factory, is a giant machine that once was activated brought out the end of the world.  Everything and anything that was once alive is now dead.  Humans, animals, plants, nothing is spared, not even the ones responsible.  Cristina sees the end of the world in full detail.
         Inside the monitoring room, Dr. Martucci notices that Cristina’s brain waves and heartbeat are going berserk.  The small screen shows her motionless in the pod, except for her eye’s moving sporadically.  All signs of unusual side effects to the subject, Dr. Watanabe shuts off the program.  Cristina crashes back into her mind and lets out a scream which pours out of her a backlash of telepathic energy that shatters the protective glass of the monitoring room.  Everyone in the room dives to the floor for shelter, with the exception of Officer Wilcox who is hit by the telepathic shock wave.  Being knocked to the floor, he is overwhelmed with the images of the apocalyptic future that Cristina witnessed despite the mind-scrambler on his head.  Simultaneously, as Cristina falls into a coma, Wilcox gets a nosebleed. 
         Ruby is the first to stand up, as she reaches the shattered glass, she yells for Cristina.  The doctors dash out and into the E/C Room to aid Cristina.  They take her on a gurney to the built-in hospital, and stabilize the injuries.  Officer Wilcox quietly and without being noticed, heads to his office to be alone. 
         Two weeks go by and Cristina lays in her bed in a private corner of the hospital.  Slowly everyone goes back to their schedule of tests and exercise in the Mind’s Eye building.  Ruby visits her every night and tells her of the days events.  How Samantha finally let Brian kiss her, and the way Trevor messes with Dr. Lukenbill and the staff.  Also on how much she misses her.  Each night before Ruby leaves she turns around one last time and whispers ‘wake up, ’ turns back around and walks out the door.  Cristina does not wake up, and for the last two weeks her mind has been a mystery, even for telepaths.
         Ted on the other hand is a different story.  He is now fighting with the visions in his head.  He acts perfectly normal and interacts with his two subordinate security officers as if nothing bothers him.  When he is alone at home or in his office, he is tormented by the images, so much that he silently weeps.  Wilcox feels as if he is fighting for his soul.
         In the middle of the night, as everyone is asleep, Cristina finally wakes up from her coma.  Realizing she is alone, she begins to get up when a visitor enters the room.  It doesn’t enter through the door but more like appears in the room.  A brilliantly shinning tall figure stands before her, hovering two feet above the ground.  He is gentle looking and very at peace.  Cristina sits very still, as the thing introduces itself as God.  Without another word Cristina knows why the supernatural being is here.  It wants her to keep the visions to herself.  And before she ask why, the being answers with ‘it is what has been said was going to happen since the beginning of time.’  Then it orders Cristina not to prevent the future from happening or she will suffer the consequences of defying God.  Cristina hesitates then agrees with the being.  God stares at Cristina for a few moments and disappears, leaving her alone once again.
         Cristina sits on her bed in the dark for a couple of hours contemplating on what has accord.  She gets up and walks to one of the drawers on the wall.  Taking out a scalpel, Cristina slits her wrist and bleeds on the floor.  Walking to the bed, she lays across it face down waiting to die.  As she’s done for the past two weeks, Ruby enters the hospital room to check on Cristina.  Spotting the blood on the floor first, then Cristina on the bed.  Ruby runs to the drawer and gets gauze and stops the bleeding.  She then grabs the phone to call Nurse Dolores Erickson at her home.  Arriving thirty minutes later, Nurse Erickson stitches Cristina up as every one wakes up and runs to see the commotion.  Dr. Lukenbill also appears after getting the nurse’s call and calms everybody down by saying that she is still in shock over the program and the coma, and everyone should leave so she can get some rest.  Ruby tries to reassure Cristina and is the last one to leave.  Cristina fakes her slumber and is once again alone, with the drawers locked.
         Staring at the ceiling, Cristina is not trying to sleep.  She lies in her bed thinking of other things than the visions in her head.  The lights dim suddenly, and the shadow on the floor stretch into the corner of the room.  Eyes from no-where appear in the shadows.  Cristina’s heart skips a beat, but externally she doesn’t move.  A figure walks out into the dimmed lights.  He is tall, but not overpowering and is covered in darkness as if he is wearing the shadows themselves.  He explains that he is the opposite of what visited her earlier.  If she thinks he is the devil, so be it.  What he wants is to encourage her not to do “God’s” bidding, but to do what she felt is right.  Cristina hangs her head, and begins to weep.  The figure walks to her and places his hand on her head.  She slowly pushes it away.  Looking up, Cristina tells him to leave.  He pauses then agrees, but before he leaves he turns to her and says, “You know I’m right.”  Then he disappears into the shadows.  The lights turn normal, and Cristina cries for the rest of the night.
         The next day, the scientists work with Cristina and test her health and ability.  The tests show that her health is great, and her wounds are healing nicely.  As her blood pressure is taken, the shadowy figure appears in the corner.  Cristina points him out to Dr. Qazi, but he is blind to the dark man.  Thinking of it as post stress from the accident and nothing more, Dr. Qazi forgets about it and resumes his test.  But again the shadowy figure visits Cristina; this time she is getting her telepathic ability tested.  Dr. Han takes his mind-scrambler off and asks Cristina if she could read his mind.  Cristina, to afraid to use her ability, shakes her head.  The shadowy figure stands behind Dr. Han, but does not disturb him.  Dr. Han puts his mind-scrambler back on and writes in his notes.  Reading the notes, the figure looks at Cristina and whispers ‘you know what to do.’  Hearing something, Dr. Han quickly turns around to find no one there.  He then writes in his notes again.  The figure is gone but Cristina can still feel him and as he sometimes whispers to her.  When the scientists are done, Cristina walks back to the hospital room and lies back in bed.
         As dawn hits, Ted Wilcox is in his office suffering from weeks of sleepless nights because of the nightmare he gets every time he closes his eyes.  He sits at his desk clicking off and on the safety switch on his gun.  From the corner of his office a bright light materializes, and a bright being shows him self.  Ted points the gun to the life form and pulls the trigger, but the safety stops from anything happening.  The bright form reveals to Ted that he is God, and he is here to relive him of his pain.  He then goes on to tell Ted that the images in his head are developed from the five telepaths and the scientists as a plan for something disastrous.  So, if he is the guinea pig for their deed, so he must be the one to stop them, especially Cristina Woods.  After he is done the images will be gone.    Wanting so much to be normal again, Ted agrees, and just as he came the figure is gone.  Ted gets up from his desk and walks to his gun rack and takes out his trusted .9 millimeter glock.
         Out of the hospital, Cristina wanders the halls of the building, alone.  She then walks into the elevator and presses the button for the basement.  The elevator doors open and she heads towards the monitoring room.  Slowly she walks in, stepping on the shattered glass.  Suddenly, one of the security cameras turn on and shows the day she was in the E/C Room.  Cristina stares at the glowing screen of her shaking, screaming, then the screen goes black.  Behind her the shadowy figure emerges from the dark and walks up to her. 
                “That’s when it happened,” he tells her in a soft voice, “That’s when you became the savior.”
              “I didn’t ask to see the visions,” Cristina replies also in a low tone.
              “It doesn’t matter,” he says, “You and only you can do this now.”
              Cristina sits quietly, and as she is about to speak she stops and looks up.  The figure looks up with her.  “You feel that too,” asking but knowing the answer. Ruby walks into the hospital room to find it empty.  She walks out to look for her but is greeted by the rest of telepaths with Dr. Lukenbill in front. 
              “Cristina is not in her bed,” Ruby says with an emergency!
              “She couldn’t have gone far,” Dr. Lukenbill says trying to calm her, “What I have to say involves Cristina anyways.”
              Dr. Martucci, Dr. Han, and the two day and night security officers Steve Denton, and Jesse Bertling, arrive to talk about Cristina also.  Dr. Lukenbill gets handed some papers from Dr. Han.  “In lieu of what has occurred and the results of this morning tests.  Cristina is not well emotionally and has decided to not use her abilities.”
              “What does that mean,” Ruby asks contemptuously.
              “It means, Miss Abruzzo,” Dr. Lukenbill shoots back, “That if Miss Woods does not continue with the projects interests in mind, that we will be forced to cut her loose.”
              “You son-of-a-bitch,” Ruby responds.
              Ted, in his office, stands in front of the lock down switch.  He gives out a silent prayer and then flips the lever to the security lock down of the entire building.  All of the windows, doors and any other exit are locked and covered with three inches of reinforced steel.  Also, the main power turns off and the emergency lights come on.  Dr. Lukenbill tells everyone to calm down and walks all of them to the recreation room.  He explains that it might be an electrical mishap and that he will go to the basement and manually overrides the lock down which is in the janitor’s room.  He walks to the other side of the building in the dimly lit hall into the pool room and to the emergency staircase that leads to the basement.
Cristina was in the monitoring room when the lights turned off.  The figure, which is almost completely invisible in the shadows, says to her, “The clock has begun for you to make a choice.”  Cristina walks to the elevator but realizes that the power is shut off, and then on the other side of the janitor’s door she hears the voices of Dr. Lukenbill and George Navarro.  She is about to walk in when Ted from the staircase burst in and shoots George in the chest.  Ted then turns to Dr. Franklin Lukenbill and shoots him in the head.  Picking up a monkey wrench, Ted smashes the manual override and leaves up the stairs.  Cristina cautiously walks into the room and checks up on Dr. Lukenbill and George.  The doctor is dead but George is critical and needs medical attention.  George tells Cristina that now the only way to open the doors is in Ted’s office.  Cristina leaves George and goes up the stair well behind Ted.
              Ted walks calmly in the dimmed halls to the recreation room where the group is waiting for Dr. Lukenbill.  He kicks the door open and with precise aim shoots at any thing that moves.  Jesse Bertling the night guard and Dr. Han are the first to be shot dead as the startled group dashes into the next room, which is the gym.  Trying to escape into the restroom, Trevor is shot as the bullet rips through his hand and into his chest.  Ted follows the crowd into the gym then out to the lobby.  While everyone runs through the hall, Dr. Martucci advances to the front door.  Because of the lock down the door does not budge and she is shot in the back of the head. 
              Cristina walks out of the staircase and into the swimming pool room.  She hears a gunshot and she runs out the doors and into the halls.  Cristina is meet by the panicking group.  Ruby hugs and tells her about Ted, Cristina in turn tells them about the broken manual override and the shut down switch in Ted’s office.  Hearing Ted getting closer, they all run into the swimming pool room.  Before they can get through the doorway Ted, from a good distance, shoots Ruby in the back.  She falls to the floor in pain, as the gang keeps running.  Cristina turns to help her but Ruby yells at her to keep running.  Ted burst through the door to see Ruby on the floor still alive.  He bends down and sticks his fingers into her wound.  She gives out a painful howl as Ted drags her to the swimming pool.  He dunks her head in the water and drowns her.  Ted then throws her lifeless body into the water.
              Inside the stair well, the foursome scurries to the second floor.  Steve stops and orders Brian, Samantha, and Cristina to continue while he slows Ted down.  The three telepaths run past the doctor’s offices to Ted’s.  When the bright being appears in front of Cristina.  With a loud and booming voice, he commands Cristina to turn around and go to Ted.  She shakes her head slowly and begins to weep.  The floating being lifts up his hand and points to the staircase which Cristina then quietly turns around and walks with her head in her hands.    She opens the door and sees Ted over Steve as he dies of a shot to the neck.  Ted turns around and sees Cristina in the doorway.  He raises his gun to her but does not shoot.  Realizing that it is her he has been after the entire time, he saves her death for God, but before then he yells at her for his nightmares and beats her with his bare hands.
              Brian and Samantha arrive at Ted’s office to find it locked from the inside.  They both try to break in but to no avail.  Brian hears Ted getting closer, so he pulls Samantha into one of the scientists office.  Dragging a bloody Cristina through the hall, Ted walks past the office that Brian and Samantha are in.  The two telepaths are hiding in a tall metal cabinet, and Samantha tries to contact Cristina telepathically.  Cristina, still not wanting to use her ability, fights Samantha from entering her mind.  Ted notices Cristina’s struggle and turns around and walks back from where he came.  When they past the office Brian and Samantha are hiding in, Cristina cringes.  Ted leisurely strolls into the office, and Samantha stops her telepathic wrestle with Cristina.  Dropping Cristina on the floor, Ted stands in front of the cabinet.  He raises the gun to the door and fires, killing Brian instantly.  Samantha, in a rage, jumps from the closet and attacks Ted. 
              Cristina lies on the floor watching Ted struggle with Samantha, when the shadowy figure comes into view. 
              “Get up,” he cries compellingly.  “Stand up right now and do something!  Don’t you see him?  Look at what he’s doing to her.  He is the only thing in your way, and he was sent to stop you.  If what I said to you were not extremely important, he would not have been driven to this.  Billions of lives are depending on you, not just yours anymore.  It’s not just your life you’ll be throwing away.  It’s mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, every mammal, reptile, bird, and fish, every tree, grass, and flower.  Even this giant planet all of those things call a home will be gone, and you know what you have to do to stop it.  You know deep down in your soul that once you got those visions of the apocalypse, the future fell into your hands.  You are the its savior, even if it means marching up to heaven’s gates, staring into his eyes and defying him by saying NO!  You know that it’s your future, your fate, and your destiny.  The choice that you make right now will determine if you will be in the grave with the rest of the planet or will you dedicate your life by becoming Earths rescuer.  Make the choice now; stop him before he stops you.  Get up!  Stand up!  Become the savior!”
              Taking all the strength she has left, Cristina stand up and grabs a tall standing lamp, and raises the heavy end above her head.  She then takes a couple of steps forward and drops it on the top of Ted’s head with force.  Ted turn around to get hit with the other side of the lamp in his face.  With a quick gesture, Ted snatches the lamp from Cristina and smacks her to the floor with the back of his hand.  He lays a hand on his head and feels the broken mind-scrambler. 
Hurting, he throws the device to the floor then he turn to Samantha and points the gun to her, but before he can pull the trigger, Cristina quickly dives into Ted’s mind.  She then dumps the most painful memory that she has; the night her parents died.  Unpredictably, Ted begins to reenact the entire memory in the role of Cristina’s father.  In his mind, Ted just Shot Cristina’s mother and is seeing Cristina as a ten-year-old.  He then looks at Cristina with the same depressed expression Cristina’s father gave twelve years ago.  Ted raises his gun to his head consistently with the memory then looks at Cristina and whispers ‘I love you.’  At that moment Cristina, also reliving the painful memory, stops the connection as Ted is in mid pull of the trigger.  In that mille-second, Ted comes back to reality and comprehends the fact that he just pulled the trigger to his gun and shoots himself.
              A couple of hours later Samantha, with Ted’s keys, reversed the lock down and called the police, she and the survivors are being medically looked after.  Trevor Diaz and George Navarro are rushed to the hospital for treatment, while Samantha and Cristina are taken into custody for questioning.  In the back of a cop car, Cristina watches the media arrive, and sitting next to her is the shadowy figure.  He leans to her and whispers, “Your old life has ended, but your new life has just begun.”  The cop car drives away and Cristina realizes that it is true.

                             THE END….