I'll Always Love A Bad Boy (Sequel To I Fell In love With The Bad Boy)

Chapter 26 - Funeral

- Jasmine -
I must admit I never thought I'd be going to Corey's funeral. Probably in about sixty years maybe but not right now.

When Mrs. Anderson had asked me to say something at the funeral, I had no idea what to say. But then I realised it wasn't going to be as hard as I thought, I would cry half way through guaranteed.

I opened my closet, it was the morning of the funeral and I was attempting to choose something to wear that was appropriate.

I shuffled through the clump of hanging dresses, I noticed the dress I'd worn to prom with Corey last year. No, I wasn't going to wear that to his funeral. I found a straight black dress and decided this was probably the best thing to wear to a funeral.

The rest of my family and Toby were in the car already waiting for me. Mum had sat down with Luke and explained what happened to Corey, and at first like didn't even cry. I was worried about him, after mum explained it to him he went to his room, about half an hour later he was bawling his eyes out.

On the way to the church no one spoke at all, the car was dead silent. I guess they didn't know what to say either.

There were lots of people already seated when we walked in, I didn't know Corey knew this many people. I spotted Jake and Dylan with their families in the second row form the front.

Mrs. Anderson waved at me and motioned me to the front row. The front row, I couldn't sit there. But I did what I was told and now I was sitting just meters away from his casket.

There were roses and wreaths laid around his casket and a photo of him, his prom photo from last year.

I turned around to see Toby and my family in the third row back, I was desperate now. The funeral people were making a speech about how he will live on in our hearts and what not, and then they invited Mrs. Anderson to make her speech.

She talked about Corey being her only son and how he did a lot of bad things, but he always had good intentions. It was obvious that she still couldn't comprehend why someone would do this to him.

I knew how she must feel, because I felt that way when someone ran over Luke. I'd thought I was going to lose him.

Mrs. Anderson finished speaking and invited me up to make my speech. I was so nervous and I was shaking, everyone was quiet as I took my place now only centimetres from Corey's casket. I cleared my throat, all these eyes fixed on me expectantly.

"I must admit that I never though I would be standing here in front of you all making a speech about my boyfriend. Corey wasn't always a nice guy. I recall the first day I had anything to do with him, he knocked me over in the corridor and kept walking. I thought he was a jerk, he acted like he didn't care about anyone but himself. That was until he decided to talk to me, I got to know him for the guy he really was. He cared about me, I had never felt so loved. I knew he would do anything for me and he knew I would do the same for him.Toward the end Corey and I weren't getting on as well as we had in the past, he made a mistake and kissed another girl. I was with someone else, and he tried to apologise so many times but I just never even listened. He died thinking I never forgave him." tears started to slide down my cheeks. "It could have been me in that casket or Toby in there, but Corey took that bullet and he payed the price for me. I just hope he knows how much I care about him and that I will always love him. And I hope he can forgive me too, because I forgave him." I finished and returned to my seat.

Everyone stood and casket decended out of view, it took everything in me to not run up there and make sure he wasn't in there still alive. Deep down inside I knew he was gone but I didn't want to believe it.

People then started to file out, I was one of the first out, I couldn't stand to be in there any longer. I sat down on a bench and put my head in my hands.

"Are you alright?" Toby sat down next to me, "That must have been really hard."

"It was, you have no idea." I said quietly.

"He knows you forgave him."

"No he doesn't, he'll never know."

"You can't beat yourself up about it."

"I'm not going to rest until Wes is behind bars." I stood up determination driving me.

"That's the right way to go about it. But first you need a good nights sleep."

"Fine I'll have a good nights sleep and then I'm not going to rest."

"Karma J, Wes will get his." Toby said.

"Karma's a bitch." I answered, "What goes around comes around. Wes will get his." I smiled at the thought, justice. Justice would come and get Wes for sure.