No Longer.

10. Mourning

Day #21

Cody -

I don't know how much time has past. I still have Noah in my arms. Why did it have to be him? Why did we leave him behind? All of my questions are left unanswered. I can hear people calling my name, they must have came to find me. Why? Why couldnt they just leave me to die? Just as they did with Noah. I feel as if my eyes will pop out of my head from how long I've been bawling. I can hear the sound of shoes on wood. Someone is walking up to me. I hope it's the killer. Please kill me. The footsteps stop, I hear someone gasp. Its Gwen. She kneels down beside me.
"Oh my god Cody, I'm so sorry." She says. I see her eyes well up with tears, I don't know why. She didn't even know him. I put Noah down, I put my head in my hands. Gwen hugs me. She gets up, expecting me to follow her. I don't. I'm not leaving him again. I can't. If they want me back, they will have to physically drag me.

Gwen's POV -

I feel horrible for Cody, I cant imagine what he is going through right now. I get up. He stays were he is. We need to go back, it isnt safe put here with just the two of us. "Cody, we have to go, it isnt safe. We can come back for him once we have the rest of the group." I tell him. He doesn't move. I take him arm, "Don't fucking touch me!" I take a step back, Cody isn't one to lash out like that. "Cody please, we cant stay here. I promise you, we will come back once its safer." I take a step forward. He sits up, remaining on the ground. I take his arm again, this time he doesn't do anything. I try to walk but he doesn't move again. I'm going to have to physically drag him, aren't I? I continue walking, him having to trail along due to the grip i have on his arm. I can hear him crying behind me, but i cant stop. We need to get back before something happens again.

After a 15 minute walk, we make it back. Everyone has returned from the search for Cody. I see Duncan sitting. We all know this his fault. He looks up, his face goes pale once he sees Cody crying. He knows. I turn towards Cody, his face is practically turning red. Duncan stands up, Cody basically launches himself at him. He punches him across the face, Duncan doesn't fight back, he knows he deserves this. Geoff and Trent come over and grab Cody's arms dragging him off of Duncan. He sits up and hold his face as Cody is kicking, trying to get out of Geoffs and Trents grasp. He's yelling profanities at Duncan, such as "I'll fucking kill you!" and "You fucking left him, you prick!". Again, we all know he deserves it, so no one says anything.

Cody calms down after a minute and just falls to his knees, sobbing. I go back to him and hug him, he clings onto me as if letting go would cause my death. We stay like this for a long time, neither of us letting go. Once he finally let's me go, it gets extremely cold all of a sudden.

... POV -

Cody is bawling his eyes out, I can hear him from all the way out here. I've tried leaving the water, but I start to feel a horrible burning sensation all over my body... or lack there of. I still feel a lot of pain, especially in my shoulder and neck. It pains me to know that I cant do anything to comfort Cody, all I want is to hug him and tell him everything will be okay. Although I know it wont, I'm dead and there is no reversing that. I've accepted it as theres no point in dwelling over it. Sure it sucks, I cant see the love of my life, I cant leave a body of water and I'm sopping wet. All of the things I hate in life/death. I can hear Cody wailing. Please for the love of god, Gwen take care of him. Don't let him do anything drastic.

I FEEL AS IF THAT COULD'VE BEEN BETTER. I hit writers block sorry lol. I hope this works for you guys:D HAVE A GREAT DAY/NIGHT

There will be a lot more of Gwen's POV :)