She.

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So you do want to know? About "this boy"....? 

Well...

Fireworks, but not the good ones.

No, the ones that used to scare you as a kid, because of the light and the noise, like a bomb exploded and you thought a war had begun.

That's what it felt like, the moment he pronounced the word "suicide".

His commitment to suicide was too overwhelming and too terrifyingly big.

I was angry that he wanted to give up, he wanted to leave me behind saying he has no one to rely on while I was standing there, trying to save him.

But if I only knew that every time I tried to heal him, he gave one of his scars to me.

"This boy"...