Nicole Nightingale

57: final goodbye

Dressed in my special black suit and what nicole said made me look like a james bond. I smiled to myself in the mirror as i remembered it. Today was the day i was going to have to face alfie at the funral, i had dad banned for a reason and it was a good reason.
"You ready, this day is going to be long as it is" mum says as she is blowing her nose on a tissue.
"I am ready." I nodded.

We get out the car and there was alfie, me, mum, the macqueen's too all in a teary mess, prince and lily and romeo was there too. I couldn't believe it was the real funral for nicole.
We go in the church and take our seats and sat down. I couldn't read a long with the passages as tears ran down my face and i couldn't read the hyms either i wanted to blank it all out until...
"James nightingale is coming up to say a few words" the preist says.
"My sister i began as i go to walk up. "She was crazy, funny and annoying and always right, she may have got on the wrong side of people but who doesn't.. she was always on my side and by my side forever thing no matter what happend. I can agree that some things i did i regret but she looked one the bright side, she knew everything i knew and was the best friend... i never really lost and had for every day in this village and.. i am sorry" i started to cry.
"The sad part about it was she never got to see all the stuff i could continue to do.. which she knows will mean a lot, in a letter she wrote to me it said not to cry but to smile because she wants things to be happy and how she knows we can all love someone no matter what we say.. and she should have lived another day, i am grateful she risked her life for me, romeo and prince and lily too, and i think they know that deep down she was a good person really and only wanted one thing, which was love. Thank you".
A lot of people were crying including me, it was hard to say this through everything i knew she knows everything  will be ok again soon either way. I took my seat and sat down.

When we all get outside i see ste and harry only seperate.
"Hey james." He mutters. "I am here to pay respects."
"Come to gloat?" I questioned to ste.
"I am here to say sorry for your loss actually" he says. "It will be hard i nearly lost my sister in that storm so i know your feeling".
"Well thank you that will be apperiated" i nodded. "Just follow me".
I took them down to nicole's where people already started laying flowers.
One day where it was special for nicole.
It still never felt real, that there was the storm i found out i had a son, the hurt harry had married ste, i nearly drowned and so did romeo. I was never going to forget that it happend because i couldn't it was a nightmare that couldn't leave but through it all this was it.. nicole was gone and we gave her the best good bye she could ever get. I was all set for another.. just kidding i am really alive and i could hug her and my pain would end but this time it was real. But she did say be happy not sad.
I love nicole, no matter where she is.