Taken Away//Grethan

Chapter 1

Ethan's P.O.V

I pushed open the door with my foot and walked inside placing the boxes onto the floor. I wiped my sweaty palms on my jeans looking around seeing the place filled with boxes.

That was the last of them.

I sighed as I walked up to the balcony doors, opening the door and stepping outside, the December winter breeze giving me instant goosebumps.

I looked around to see the floor covered in frost, it hasn't snowed yet but it's cold enough to.

I closed the sliding door after walking back inside my apartment. I shut the front door and turned the heating up.

I took off my coat and turned on some music. I picked up the box closest to me.

Let's get this over with.

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As I stood up my knee popped. I stretched out my limbs and yawned.

That took forever.

I scanned the room to see that there was only one box left. I walked up to it and picked it up, taking it to the sofa with me.

I sat down crossed legged and placed the box infront of me. I opened the flaps of the box and scanned it's contents.

Grayson's letters.

There was an envelope sitting ontop of the letters. Weird I thought I opened all of Grayson's letters. I furrowed my eyebrows as I picked up the envelope and opened it. This is nothing like Grayson's handwriting. I started to read the letter.
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I thought that hearing Grayson being adopted was the worst news that I would ever receive but this, this is 100 times worse.

I folded the letter back up and slotted it back into the envelope. Some of my tears dropped onto the envelope as I saw the date that it was sent.

4th May 2016

2 years ago and I'm only finding out about this now. I'm such a bad brother! Well atleast now he's able to see me, I guess I just have to look up at the clouds.

Wait why wasn't I invited to the funeral? Maybe I did get an invitation. I search the box to see it there was there was an invitation or another envelope that I haven't opened.

Nothing.

I stacked everything back in neatly and in time order. I placed the box on the floor and looked into thin air.

It's like one of those times in life when you're so shocked you don't know what to do and you just want to scream but you can't because it feels like you can't move.

I licked my lips and I could taste the saltiness of my tears on my lips. Tears escaped from my eyes, sliding down my face at an uneven pattern but yet not even a sound left my lips.

I just sat there looking so emotionless, letting the tears fall down my face and onto my legs. It's like I've zoned out, staring into the abyss.

Nothing makes sense to me and everything feels frozen. My twin brother that I haven't seen in 6 years, died 2 years ago and I've only found out about it now.

I managed to lift my arm up and wipe away my tears but more came back so I carried on letting them run down my face, tickling my cheecks.

Now that I've gone through it in my head it's all hitting me at once, Grayson's dead, I will never see him again, he's not here, not on this earth, his heart is no longer beating, his beautiful soul is no longer alive.