*Mitch POV*
I look to the hospital bed with joy that Jerome was still alive. The bed was empty. With confusion, I looked around for him. He wasn't there. I walked out to the receptionists desk to find out where he was.
"Excuse me, but I was wondering where Jerome Hughes is?"
She looked at me, pushing down her glasses.
"You don't know?" She asked me.
"Don't know what?"
"Jerome Hughes died early in the morning, 2:13 am. You were the one that called the nurses,"
I slumped to my knees. It wasn't a dream. I turned to walk away to my car, to leave to set up the funeral. The receptionist stopped me.
"He wanted you to have this,"
She handed me a dog tag. Engraved on it was, "Always Your Bacca,". I clasped it on around my neck. I looked at her.
"Thank you, this means a lot,"
She just looked at me sadly, like she felt pity for me. I got into our-my house to plan the wedding. That would take some time to get used to. Me not us, past tense. Jerome was dead.
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Time skip to funeral
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I sat in the chair up the front and watched everyone flock in. There was his family, a few teachers and some students. Suddenly, I stopped glancing around to look at a group of kids sitting around. Jerome's bullies. I walked up to them.
"What the hell do you think you're doing here?"
"Mourning the death of a friend,"
This sent me into a fit of rage
"HE WAS NEVER YOUR FRIEND. YOU BULLIED HIM. HE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE BECAUSE OF YOU."
I quieted down a bit, panting heavily.
"Just, leave,"
The group looked at each other and scrammed. I went back up to the front to have one last look at Jerome. There he was, lying down, peaceful at last. Not that I helped. I lay down blue flowers next to him, for his favourite axe; Betty. My eyes started to tear up and I decided to leave. I couldn't take it anymore.
Back at the house, I lay down, feeling numb. Just plain numb. I looked at the dog tag. A little smile grew from my lips. He always knew what to get me.
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Blades of Despair (A Merome Fanfic)
FanfictionJerome Aceti is bullied him being openly bisexual. Can he live with the facts? Or will love tear away at him piece by piece? Maybe Mitchell Hughes will be able to help this fluffy Bacca.
