Her Dystopia

Chapter 13: "You kept him happy."

I grabbed his shoulders, "King what?"

He still didn't look me in the eye, but I could see his.

"King attempted suicide."

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"What?" I asked as I stood up abruptly, but he pushed me back down despite how I'm taller than him. He started to cry more. "After you left, he stayed in his room for hours without going out. Not even to go the bathroom. We all knocked on his door and tried to get in, but he wouldn't open the door. I even tried the window, but he locked it too. So with no more options, we busted through the door and what we saw....."

He had to catch his breath from breathing so hardly. "What we saw was terrifying." I covered my mouth in shock and I tried to wipe the trail of tears away. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. "I don't want to know! Please, spare me." I cried. "Well you're part of this too so you're stuck with it! You can't do anything about it."

I covered my ears, but he played tug-of-war trying to disconnect them from my ears. He finally managed to slap my hands against my lap and held them there. "He had a sword, his sword that he uses when he fights. It was on the floor, covered in blood, along with his body. Two small cuts and a large one on his left arm and two tiny ones on the right. He had a note that he could barely hold in his hand." Hawk pulled the semi bloody note out of his pocket and started to read it.

"And it says: 'My dear friends, you all treated me like family, we are family, and I love you all to death, but I can't go on like this. Under the floor boards hides my most precious pictures and my will. I would like all of you to follow it, word by word. I'm sorry about this, but three people in my lifetime has left me alone and I cannot take it anymore. My mother, committed suicide, my brother, was murdered, and the love of my life, left me alone because of me caring too much. If I survive this, I want all of you to kick me out of the guild with Neveah giving me my weapons, Promise giving me my bandages, Hawk giving me my clothes, and Savon saluting me away. I need to suffer from hurting you all. And if you find her, let me see her one more time before I leave, but if I'm not here, then give her all of my memories. This is goodbye for some time. Goodbye." He finishes and puts the note back in his pocket.

He wipes the tears with his sleeve and I keep on crying. "Where is he now?" I ask after wiping my face with the back of my hand. "He's at the house with Neveah watching over him." He grabbed my hand roughly and tight. "You heard what he said; he's alive so he needs to see you."

"Yeah, he's alive. Which means that you should kick him out. Isn't that what the will said?" I said with a frown. I got out of the seat and walked towards Andrew's room. He pulled me back with force. "Let go of me!" I yelled. "The will says to leave him, but we would never do that. He needs you. We can't help him." He yelled back.

I snatched my hand back from him. "I'm sorry, but I can't do that. It's none of my business."

"It's our business when my brother goes so low that he almost kills himself just to see you again!"

"Well I'm sorry, okay! I didn't ask for any of this shit to happen."

"We didn't ask for this to happen, but we have no choice. We can't choose who lives or dies."

"And tell him that he can't choose who stays or leaves in his life!"

Hawk had tears all on his face and they were making dots on his black hoodie. I had tears, but every now and then, I would wipe them away. He launched at me, but someone held him back. "Hawk stop!" Her light red cornrows swung in front of his face and her stick figured body pulled him into a hug. He tried to get away and reached out for me, but he fell weak and stuffed his face over her shoulder.