I used to be afraid to die, I know now death is easy. There are much worse things that can happen.
There is losing your first love same the night you propose. Destroying your best friend’s life in the blink of an eye. Or trapping yourself in a dead end town and giving up on your dreams.
To have died would have been easy. Try living with yourself day in and day out after what you have done. Watching your best mate suffer and there is nothing you can do about it. And knowing the girl you love left you all alone to pick up the pieces… now that is much worse than death.
I become ‘that’ Michael, the guy who messed up bad. When I walked down the street people whispered behind their hands and avoided eye contact.
I go to work every day to remind myself what I did to Jack. I push away any hope of having that happily ever. The one I almost had within my grasp. It’s my burden and there is nothing I can do about it.
Jack, Mary-Lynne and I all died the night of our graduation. We were just too stupid to know it and kept on breathing.
One day melded into the next. People forgot - but I never did… Then one day out of the blue Sandy come along and changed everything.
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Losing Jack
General FictionEvery one has something to hide. With so much at stake, some may even kill to get what they want... Michael Andersons life is in tatters after a horrific accident on graduation night. Tortured by guilt he gives up on ever chasing his dreams, or a ha...
