Monsters || Punk 5SOS AU

#30

4:56 am - Wednesday

But no one would know. Not until 8:00 am when the grey haired boy would wonder why she wasn't up yet. He was to walk into the room with her lying on her bed, tucked safely under her covers. Excited for the days adventures.

But they were not to come forth.

The early morning darkness brought the dreaded. Something everyone was trying to avoid. But it was too late, it had caught up.

The last words uttered are ones no one would every forget - "Goodnight guys, I love you all, to the moon and back, and am so glad I have had the privilege of having you as part of my life."

The words to be etched on each of their skin as a reminder.

Once the call went out, silenced followed everything.

The unexpected, unwanted and unknown suicide attempt had successfully claimed Katelyn Clifford's life.

It was thought that the pills would stop all attacks. Instead, they just put them off for a later day. All her delayed ones decided to hit at once, triggering an unmissable death. But no one knew that. They just thought she had stopped taking them again.

Luke cried for days on end. Calum stopped playing football - the memories kept him off his game. Ashton stopped talking - he couldn't trust his voice with holding up any type of conversation. Luna was never seen - she missed her best friend and couldn't believe she was gone. All four guys dropped out of school. Karen and Daryl put their differences behind them to mourn the passing of their child. Liz and Andrew were devastated - they felt like they could've stopped it.

Michael was by far the worst. People barely saw him after the funeral. He wouldn't step out of her room. He was cuddled up to her soft toys that still smelt like her. The same bed she died in would be where Michael lost his own mind. He made a promise to himself, if she went - he wouldn't follow. Oh how he wished he never made it. He wanted nothing more than to he with his sister. But she wouldn't want that. Three tattoos represented her. Two quotes and a picture. The picture was going to be a surprise for her on Christmas, now it's just a reminder of what he's lost.

It was expected that the tattooing would stop, but they only found more ways to place memories of Katelyn onto their skin. The suicidal schizophrenic girl changed their lives. Taken far to early for their liking, claimed by suicide itself. No one understood how the bottle of pills ended up in her possession.

Their school changed, it was more opened to anyone with a mental illness in hopes to prevent losing another student. The teachers wished they had helped Katelyn more through the bullying instead of ignoring it.

Michael had thought he had ran out of tears, but only for more to spill out when he found an unsent letter from Katelyn. Describing the pain of having an attack and the joy that would follow when she would open her eyes, get her mind back, and find her knight in tattered and torn armour, saving her from another fatal attack. Tattered because it proved that he would face her monsters along side her. He thought he was moving on, this brought him right back to square one.

Luna moved away, and the boys didn't hear about her for a long time. Until she was starring in one of the largest Hollywood movies on record. Then they remembered everything about Katelyn's best friend, and she remembered the 'bros.' Luna always thought about her best friend and used it as an inspiration to follow her dreams. She wouldn't to have held her back.

When the four boys had gotten older, they never grew apart, and they never forgot. Any precious memory was hanging in their family home for their wife and kids to see. Questions were asked and the same response always followed, "Who's that girl daddy? In the picture, with my uncles?"

"That's Katelyn. The girl who lived with the monsters, and still changed my life."