T/W- death, murder, shooting
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The skyline was lit up perfectly by the city so far below us, the clouds only visible due to the light purple shade of the night sky. We knew it was coming, it had to happen some time so we decided to spend a few of our last moments in silence, just relieving the memories we had made together over the little time we had spent together . It really felt like we were on top of the world, as if it was only there for us. We knew after a few minutes of silence it was time to say goodbye, I tried to talk but my overwhelming sadness pared with the weakness that comes with dying the most i could get out was a whisper.
'so i guess this will be goodbye lunar '
I had always thought if goodbye as too permanent, but for the first time it felt so fitting.
'yeah i guess it is'
We both knew from the start that we only had so long together, that eventually our illness would take over and we would part ways to the afterlife, but it felt so bad to hear them admit it.
' you know i love you, right'
They were getting tired now,i could see them slowly getting weaker. It wouldn't be long till they wouldn't be able to speak.
'i know you do kat'
I felt my own eyes start to close, my limbs get heavier, and then the gentle tears sliding down my pale face stopped falling. It would only be a matter of minutes before it would all be over.
They used all the strength they had to reach over and hold my hand. I knew they loved me, they just couldn't say it.
'I'll miss you my darling '
They couldn't even whisper anymore, they almost breathed out their words.
'we will be reunited you know, in the afterlife.'
'and you can see your dad and i can see my sister .'
'im so glad im here with you'
After saying that they closed their eyes, i knew they were gone. When i finally felt myself falling away from the world i looked up for a final time, when we first met we went stargazing at midnight, lunar loved stars and i loved to hear them talk about them. My vision started to fade and my limbs grew even weaker, the stars were just blurs of light.
I closed my eyes and allowed myself to go peacefully, knowing i had lunar by my side. It was over, the whole world went dark and time stopped. I finally left behind reality and slipped away into the darkness of the afterlife.
A goodbye worth dying for, on the top of the abandoned ferris wheel we both knew from our childhoods. We may had only properly met towards the very end of our lives but we shared so many memories we didn't even know we had of each other, like that we were both on that very ferris wheel when my dad, their sister and many others were killed. A man desperate to commit a copycat crime of the shooting at another theme park three years earlier had entered the park only minutes before he fired for the first time. He shot into the open crowd, firing a total of 23 bullets, 40 were injured and 13 killed . Me and lunar both watched from our boxes as the people that were there to look after us were shot. We never actually interacted that day, but we saw each other in the crowd many times. I never got to say goodbye to my dad. Same with lunar and their sister, so we decided the only fair way to go would be the same place our loved ones did, almost like our own kind of goodbye.
The stars shone extra bright the night the friends died, like a final gift before they passed. The town went about their lives like normal, but litte did they know at the top of the hill they stood below, they had fallen victim to two more deaths in that theme park, only this time the lives were not taken by sudden force and were accepted by the victims. It was almost as if by dying, the friends had turned a page for the town, no longer was the theme park a place of sadness, but more so a place of acceptance. A place for goodbyes.
