Youth | Lynn Gunn

Chapter Eleven

It's only just begun

Lynn stood at the casket, her sunglasses covering her eyes as she watched the casket get ready to be lowered. Some hope that she could fight back the tears.

The song that had been written for her playing as everyone clutched to one another, everyone's sobs in unison as Lynn took it all in.

Brian and Alex standing there, silent hands crossed in front of them as they focused on the small funeral.

Miller's parents holding on to each other like life depended on it, uncontrollable sobs coming from them as they watched their baby girl get ready to go into her final resting place.

Lynn took it all in, everything. This was the love of her life she had just lost, that was being lowered into the ground. Each crank of the machine sending her lower and lower into the ground.

The final crank rang through, she watched as everyone left once the casket got halfway down. Lynn stood there debating should she throw herself down there with Miller.

Should she just quit and give up?

How cruel this world is to let one person complete get healthy, beat the one thing that was hardest.

She showed her strength to this world, to this hell but it still took the only thing that mattered.
It took that beautiful brown haired, hazel eyed girl that could make her world spin.

She could never see Miller on her wedding day, she could never be there holding her hand in their rocking chairs telling their great grandkids about how they met.

How they fought this evil disease together, this thing that ripped families apart with every single thing they had.

Miller had been burried with the teddy bear that had been given to her, the ring on her finger and the bracelet that had their initials on it.

Now all Lynn had was memories and heartache. She watched as the casket complete sat in the ground. The workers leaving as the rest began to fill the ground up.

"I love you." She whispered.

She made her way to the car, the silence of the cemetery being peaceful. Something that had never happened before.

She played the song that had been wrote for Miller, her hands on the wheel as she gripped it. All these emotions that had been held in pouring out.

She held her hand over her mouth, muffling the cries. She screamed and punched the steering wheel causing it go off.

She looked up from the steering wheel, a gasp coming from her. Her eyes going wide as she watched someone walk across the grave yard.

The set of hazel eyes on her as she watched the figure, the apparition walk across the yard. Angel wings on her back, her hair longer then it usually was.

A smile on her face as she waved to Lynn, her beauty there like the same day she met her in that hospital.

Lynn shocked as she watched Miller walk across the yard, she closed her eyes and opened them
thinking maybe it would go away.

She was tired and that maybe that's why she is seeing things, she opened them and still saw her. The very ring that Lynn had slid on her finger three days ago there.

Miller smiled and in a split second she was gone, it was some sort of sign that she was okay. She was happy and no longer in pain.

That she was at peace.

That she was still with Lynn, no matter what.

Or maybe, that she still loved Lynn despite everything.