My Sister's Husband

Prologue

Drained in the rain and its coldness Jeremy never really bother his state. No. He did not feel the cold and gust of the wind nor did he mind the heavy pouring of the rain. All he could feel is the dying pain he had inside of him, unmendable and incurable.

She's dead. He keep repeating the word over and over again to himself as if by saying it it would really sink in to his thick skull, but no, it didn't. Damn it, it didn't. He wanted her alive, he wanted her fighting and surviving. He wanted her near, close to him were he could protect her from the ruins of the world.

Damn. He wanted to have her back, feel her again and see her beautiful smile. He wanted to hear her words and melodic laugh. He wanted his life back, can't the world grant him that? Can't the Supreme being up there grant him that?

What did he do? Hell, what did he do to deserve this? He have done nothing wrong and she had done nothing wrong too. In fact she have done everything for the ones she love, and what did she get? Pains and suffering and when she already had her piece, He grant her sickness and killed her! Screw you! You do not exist! You. Do. Not.Exist!

"Jeremy." Emily said worrying on his brother in law's state. He was drenched with the rain and he is kneeling still on her sister's graveyard, helpless, hopeless.

Her heart ache for the loss of her sister, she was orphaned at a young age. Her sister, protector and constant friend is the only one left for her and now she was gone. Gone forever were she would not return again. Gone to the other world where she could no longer visit her except in her dreams. So yes, her heart aches in every beat but her heart shatters seeing Jeremy desperately in his state, pleading to God to let her live.

Having enough of this scene she went to him with her umbrella trying to give him some shade, maybe some warmth. Then she kneel closer to him and pat his back.

"Its time to go. .we need to go." She said to him unsure if he had heard her. He seems to be dazed while looking on the tombstone as if cursing it for its existence.

She tried harder, she gently squeezed his shoulder trying to gain his attention but to no avail, he looked like the world around him just stopped revolving, like time went still and its color spent, and went dark.

He was frozen in time. Froze over her last memory with her where she had made a huge 3D cherry bloosom just to make her see the lovely trees.

"She's happy now Jeremy. .and I know she want us to be happy too." Emme said trying to said those words to herself too. Yes, she had suffered loss before and that kind of loss is shattering. But today, the loss was deafening and sickening as if it slaps her that to the time she had held luxury and out of pain and harms way, her sister had dealt demons for her. She can't repay it, she never can but Ariel words were right, that even if wherever her sister would be, she would always want her to stay strong and to be happy, no matter what.

But Jeremy took her words differently snapping he pushed her away with rage.

"You don't know what I feel! You never knew how I feel!"

Emme stumble back, the umbrella slipped through her hand and she landed on the ground, getting soak with the rain and mudded with the land that has been used to bury her sister.

Taken aback but angry at his response she stood over, towering him. "Your not the only one who'd lost her! She's my sister!"

"And she's my Goddamn Wife!" He replied with burning pain. His eyes were crimson mad with burning pain and accusation over her.

"You need to face the truth that she's dead!" She yelled, she so wanted to slap him and wake him up. She want him to face the truth.

The place, where the funeral was commemorated were already empty, except for Jeremey and Emily, and her sister's closest friend Ariel who had just been silent the whole service and the whole argument. He was too weak to himself to say something, too weak to argue and too weak to cry. Standing few feet away from the two, Ariel just look at Jeremy's shattered being, his whole heart were obviously poured out just like his own. Well, he might not be Cassandra's husband but he had loved her since he had laid eyes on her, and that was when he was still in college. Its been like what, 15 years or so? He didn't really know. He had not count time with her, not until they said her time was counted, that he learned to dread time and to count it with hope of extending it. But hell, death is something you can't cheat. Its something that once it knocked at your doorstep it would no longer go away.

"Shut up!!" Jeremy shouted over her almost restraining himself not to stanggle her.

"No! You need to listen! She's dead and you need to face it!"

"Shut up!" with that fierce word fly a slap that landed heavily on her cheek. She almost broke her neck with the impact. Feeling her cheeks she feel like it was burned but beyond that is his menacing eyes, cold as frost and far as lightyears.

Then and there she knew, his dead too that her sister's death had killed him.

Ariel on the otherside feel suddenly alarmed at the sudden turn of event. Moving his weak body he run to aid Emily on the rain and pulled her away, away from Jeremy.

Defeated, Emme let herself get dragged but her eyes remain on him as if wishing she could see again the light in his eyes. The forgotten glitters on it, his crooked smile, or his grin. She wanted to see him alive, not dead too. But its all wishful thinking and she knew to herself that in that graveyard lies only one body but two hearts and soul.

She mourned for her sister and eventually she mourned for him too.