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You Gotta Die Sometime

wattpad glitched and unpublished this chapter, so sorry about that 🥲🔫
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There was an uncomfortable silence in the room. Jade and Issie groaned when they heard the music to the next song, knowing they were gonna cry again.

[WHIZZER]
Okay—
When the doctor started using phrases like
"You'll pass away"
What could I say?
I said Doctor
In plain English
Tell me why was I chosen
Why me of all men?

"Exactly!" Jade said, tearing up.

Doctor, here's the good part
At least death means
I'll never be scared about dying again

Someone coughed, and some people shifted uncomfortably in their seats.

Let's get on with living while we can
And not play dumb
Death's gonna come

Whizzer's actor gets up to sit on the edge of his hospital bed.

[WHIZZER]
When it does, screw the nerves
I'll be eating hors d'oeuvres

Issie gasped, "Wait, oh my god he does, because he dies at the bar mitzvah." Jade's eye go wide and they quite Cordelia.

"I'll unwrap the billion hors d'oeuvres..." They whisper.

It's the roll of the dice and no crime
You gotta die sometime

Death is not a friend
But I hope in the end
He takes me in his arms and lets me hold his face

(the way andrew scratches at his arm bc of the fact that skin rashes were a symptom of aids makes me sad 😔)

He holds me in his arms and whispers something funny
He lifts me in his arms and tells me to embrace
His attack
Then the scene turns to black

Life sucks

"That it does!"

People always hate a loser
And they hate lame ducks

"Aye!"

Screw me and shucks
That's it
That's the ball game
I don't smoke, don't do drugs
And then comes the bad news
I quit
That's the ball game
It's the chink in the armor
The unresolved karma

Jade and Issie snort at the lyric change.

The blues

He then stands up and sits in the chair next to the bed.

[WHIZZER]
Can I keep my cool despite the urge
To fall apart?
How should I start?
I would cry if I could
But it does no damn good
To explain I'm a man in my prime
You gotta die sometime

Death's a funny pal
With a weird sort of talent
He puts his arms around my neck and walks me to the bed
He pins me up against the wall and kisses me like crazy

Marvin's grip tightened. (lmao not the time to be jealous marv 💀💀)

The many stupid things I thought about with dread
Now delight
Then the scene turns to white

Give me the balls to orchestrate a graceful leave

Jade choked on their tears, finding that line the saddest in this song.

That's my reprieve
To go out
Without care
My head high in the air
It's the last little mountain I'll climb
I'll climb
You gotta die sometime
You gotta die sometime
You gotta die sometime

Jade shook their head. "I don't agree." They said through tears.

You gotta die sometime, sometime
Sometime, sometime
Sometime, sometime
Sometime, sometime

Charlotte and Cordelia start crying at the vocals of Whizzer's actor. Marvin lets his tears fall, after holding them back all this time; Whizzer strokes his arm in comfort, sniffling. Everyone else was already crying or holding back their tears.