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“The doctor will give you an okay when you can go back to say your goodbyes.”
Goodbyes?
No…
NO!
“He’s not dead!” I screamed. “He’s not… he’s not gone. He can’t be…”
Oh god.
Everyone was looking at me, watching me with sympathy in their eyes.
“Doe…” Mal, the vending machine guy, Mr. Moody, said behind me as my whole world came crashing down on me.
I spun around so fast I almost fell.
“Mal… please tell me it’s not true. Tell me he’s okay. Tell me he’s not gone.” I pleaded to the man who was watching me with so much agony in his eyes. So much torment that I wanted to disappear.
It took him a lifetime to respond. So long that I just knew, I fucking knew my worst fear had now become my reality.
“He’s gone, Wren.”
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HAYES
There was no more pain.
There was only her.
If only I could have held on a little longer, I would have loved her forever. But the stars were calling me home. And although I tried, as hard as I could, to stay. I knew I had to let go. There was too much pain.
Too tired…
And once I did, I was no longer afraid.
Because I knew a moment lasted a lifetime with Wren. To be loved by her lasted an eternity.
And I was loved greatly.
More than any soul, at any time, and any universe.
My Blue.
My sweet, beautiful girl.
I’ll love you forever.
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WREN
Brain dead.
According to the doctor, it would have been a miracle to survive the crash. The details were too grim and painful to listen to, and I soon found myself tucked into a vacant corner of the hospital, where I let go.
With tears dripping off the edge of my chin, I cursed Hayes. I shouted questions of why this happened and why it had to be him. Out of everyone in this cruel, unforgiving world, why did they have to take the most kind-hearted one?
