Another Chance (Sequel to: It's All Over Now)

Chapter 14: The Last Recital

No ones P.O.V.

Angel, Yui and Miley surrounded Morrigan silently. Miley held her in a tight hug and patted her head softly smoothing down her brown hair. "It's okay... I swear it's okay..." Yui said. Wiping away my tears. Angel stood beside me holding everyone else away. It was almost silent except for the peaceful song playing behind all of the drama in just one room.

Morrigan's P.O.V.
I could hear Miley's heart beat as she pulled me near her. When the song ended I got up, wiped my tears away and continued on. "Everyone, you may look at T-Tony's body awhile longer, then please head back to your seats." I said then stared down at Tony's body. Yui, Angel, and Miley sat down immediately terrified of the dead corpse in the middle of a pretty room, but I on the other hand traced the place where he had stabbed himself and looked at his face for a long time. Mark played another song called The River That Flows In You, while Tony's aunt, grandpa, and a few other people including me admired the body that once breathed the same air as us. He was now immortal in our memories of him. Thought the memories are different, they are somewhat the same if you think about it carefully. Every person in this room had shared some kind of a relationship with him, and we all had different stories to tell about Tony. But out of all the things that were going to happen today I think this was one of the most important parts. Learning to let go of what once was, mourn awhile, and carry on.

Soon people started drifting towards their seats slowly, wiping tears away as they walked. Once every person was back in their seat I got a shopping bag from the corner of the main room and opened it up. Two matching sweaters lay in it. One boy styled, one girl styled, both the same color and design. I took the boy styled one and hugged it tightly and let my tears fall from my eyes onto the sweater. I placed it in the casket with Tony's body and took the girl styled one out of the bag and put it around me. Everyone watched me in puzzlement as I stood up at the front of the room by a small podium once again. "Would anyone like to share a story about Tony, or a memory they created with him?" I asked clasping my freezing hands together hoping someone would offer to. When the silence had set in I accepted that I'd have to start with my story. No, me and Tony's story. "A-alright then." I said feeling dryness in my mouth. "I g-guess I'll s-start." I took a sip of water from Miley's water bottle and continued. "Nine years ago I went with my dad to Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, even though boys came as well it was packed with boys and girls who were all different types of people. There were the ones that preferred to be alone and were dragged there by force, there were the slightly awkward ones making friends with the teachers instead of the other children. The ones who thought that eight o'clock was way to early to be up on a Friday. The energetic ones who wanted to run though the entire play ground. All the children that were there had skipped school that day to make new friends, and I guess their parents let them since technically they were still at school. Lastly there was a small group, a very small group of kids that walked away from the playground completely. A small group that only had two people in it." I said taking another deep breath before continuing. "Tony, and I." People looked at me with teary eyes and some with shock or awe. "We had ended up climbing the same tree and met each other in the tree, we talked for hours about everything, about school, the rainbow, our favorite books, hobbies, sports, grades, gardens, baking, technology, music, anything you could imagine, I'm pretty sure we talked about it. When we were done with questions and talking we raced each other up the tree but I wasn't careful enough and fell, which caused me from being left handed to be forced to go right handed." I said showing the faint scar on my left arm from my veins to my elbow. Then I laughed a little. "Tony had dragged my unconscious body to his house nearby and put me on the couch, cleaned up the blood, and covered the main injured part with an ice pack. He watched me while I fell asleep then he fell asleep too. By the time I woke up he was drooling on a pillow, I woke him up by my faint crying about how I couldn't feel my arm. He calmed me down, made me relaxed and happy, and never left my side. After that we ended up playing tag until I remembered we had been asleep for who knows how long. I had looked out the window and it was pitch black dark outside. I had screamed to Tony to look at the clock and it was almost eleven at night. He let me call my dad and soon I headed home knowing that I'd see him soon when I would visit him the next day, and every day after that." After I finished I took a breath and wiped some tears away I noticed Miley in the corner crying her eyes out along with Yui. Angel however didn't really cry but sat in a petrified gaze. I think Angel noticed finally what brought Tony and I together, and what had made me and him so close that she couldn't blame me anymore for not forgetting him. She looked into my eyes and nodded, then she picked Yui up and placed her in her lap, hugged her, and calmed her down. Angel finally understood how important Yui was to her and how easy it would be to lose her by saying the wrong words. "On a final note." I said starting again. "I know that no matter where Tony is, we will always be connected by the sky, for the sky is endless and he lives there now, in heaven, hell, or where ever he went, I know we are connected by the sky because the sky is endless. Just like me and Tony's story." As I finished everyone clapped quietly and I swear, I head Tony whisper. Thank you, Morrigan, I love you. As I heard that I burst into tears as well, regained my balance, and sat down to let others tell their stories. Angel told the story of Tony's birthday party we had with silly string and pancakes. Yui told the story about the first time she went to visit Tony with Angel and I after he had lost his memory. His uncle Akito told the story of the time he was at the hospital with me and we found out Tony had cancer. There were many more after that, but to many to remember. Once all stories had been told I stood back at the front. "Lunch will now be held. In the meantime while me and my crew get the main course ready please take your seats in the back room. Help yourself to the food we already have back there, we will bring spaghetti out soon." People got up and started to walk through the doors to the back room while Mark came out of the music room and handed me the CD with tears in his eyes. "I r-really think you s-should k-keep this Morrigan." He said to me quietly. "It's sad, yet beautiful, you know what I mean?" He asked handing me the CD. I took it and glanced back at Tony's casket, at the beautifully decorated room behind us, and at the old pictures of Tony and I on the wall. I nodded, and smiled slightly. "Yes Mark, I think I know what you mean." He wiped some tears from his eyes and smiled a little while sniffling.