A Bond That Can't Be Broken

Gone Forever

Brothers POV
I am slowly waking up, the reality of what just happened dawning on me. This can't be true, we all thought she was completely crazy. Why would someone hurt an innocent person when you're not going to get anything out of it? Unless he was? Maybe she didn't even know. But why my best friend? She would've recognized him if it was him. It must've been someone else. I know it sounds bad that we're best friends and siblings but she barely talks about the man that kidnapped her. She tries to avoid the topic all together.

She always tries to see the good and now I hate myself cause I never believed her. I never even tried to ask or understand cause I wanted to see her happy not in a mental institution. I stared for maybe 30 or so minutes, when I heard people outside murmuring. They join me in the room moments later. My friends and my parents walk in, my friends seem happy but like they haven't slept in days and my parents look worse. They look like walking zombies. You know when dogs run around and splash in mud, they looked so much worse so disheveled. I see worry in their eyes. "Hey buddy, how ya doing?"my friends say one by one. "I'm good guys, what happened?"as I say this I see pity and sadness in their eyes. I start to feel a sense of dread. "Um you just got shot buddy, in the chest but it luckily didn't hit any major arteries or blood vessels," says James. "Oh, um I meant what happened to John?"I say seriously. "He's dead,"says Bailey and I can see no remorse in her eyes.

"Good,"I reply. "So you guys didn't get injured I see...,"I stop mid-sentence cause I can see their faces pale. They aren't excited for my next words, even so I continued, "so where's Tobias?" They seem shocked. "He...he didn't make it. Anyways we have to leave. The doc said you need a lot of rest,"Bailey says and just follows her words without giving me a chance to disagree. My parents looked at me heartbroken. "So how are you doing my son?"my dad asks kindly. "Fine but why'd they leave? I just need to know if Hannah's ok,"I say sadly as I look at my parents' paling faces.

"Sweetie, she's just in another room. She's absolutely fine. When you leave in a few days you can talk to her,"my mom says kindly with deep sadness and regret in her eyes, she even starts crying so I know something is up. "M-Mum what h-happened? I w-want to kn-know,"I demand as best I can since I am almost in tears as well because I know what her tears mean. My mom runs out of the room in despair, completely and utterly shattered, like she has lost a child. "We loved her a lot son, as soon as we got here they told us she died on arrival. She...in her state...was found at your side, they said she saved you. She didn't know she was hurt as well so she died from blood loss. We were told not to tell you so that you don't give up on life, even about Tobias but well,"he says but his smile fades and he just looks at me with tears brimming in his eyes, "Please don't leave us son, you're the last child we have left, we lost two already. Wait no three. We lost your sister, Hannah and Tobias too."

He just breaks down. I am in tears already hardly able to breath from my anger, "I won't leave you dad but I want you to do something for all of them please. Especially their families', please." I just want some sort of justice since I'm alive and they aren't. It seems I'm destined to be alone. No sibling I ever has stays long. "Sure son, but Hannah's family was killed a long time ago. As soon as she went missing from us. There's so much speculation that she planned their death. But after this they know it couldn't be because she died just after by someone else. But Tobias I will. I will honor their memory son. All of them,"he says to me reassuringly. I am pleased but heartbroken. Why couldn't I die and she live? I ask my dad to leave since I need some time alone. I just want to bore my eyes out with tears. I wish I had died instead or someone else cause then she wouldn't have wanted to live either if I'd died. She'd told me that many times before. "'There's no point in living if you are dead too',"I mutter to myself, "I feel the same. So it's not fair that I'm here and you aren't."

I just imagine her sprawled on my chest, I'm unconscious and she has flatlined hours ago. They just arrive and split us up into different ambulances never to see each other alive again. The last time I see her isn't a pleasant memory, all I hear are her screams for mercy just for a little, just for kindness, just someone to understand what a little girl lost many years ago because of a man and his ambitions in life.

Later, I am moved from the ICU to the first floor just above the basement. A few minutes later, my friends and my parents come to discuss her funeral. I am very much involved in every detail since I know the most but so is Bailey because she knows more of her likes and dislikes than me. During this intense conversation an alarm goes off, we think it's an emergency. Nurses are yelling, "Go check the morgue. There's a lively one in there." I am a bit scared but don't think much of it at the time. The nurses are scurrying down the stairs to the basement, where the morgue is located in a hospital, as if they're already buried. We can't concentrate so we watch what is happeninG since there's so much commotion and noise. A few minutes later, a body is being taken in a hospital bed. They declare the person's name to the reception and take them to the ICU for treatment since they have been kept in a refrigerator for who knows how long. How I wish that was my Hannah.