Heartless ➳ TWD² [COMPLETED]

Chapter XXIV ➳ Adaption

❝ Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? ❞
— TERRY PRATCHETT —

➳ I finally started to calm down or, rather, as calm as I could be. My heart still ached like I was about to have a full-blown heart attack.

Finally, Aaron began to let go of me and, as soon as he did, I shoved him completely off and crawled back over to the murderous bastard that just killed my twin brother. I started to hit him in the face again, over and over on repeat.

"Tess," I heard Daryl's warning tone, but I couldn't give two shits right now. I kept pounding his head in more and more with my fists of straight fury. "He's dead. You already killed him."

I kept on, feeling my fists becoming hurt and bleeding from the impact. Suddenly, someone grabbed ahold of my arm and dragged me up to my feet from beating the guy's face in more. I knew it was Daryl and that's why I shoved him off of me before he could say anything else.

"Fuck you!" I screamed at him, tears still streaming down my face. "You weren't there! You fucking left! You left me! I tried to stay in contact with you, but you didn't want me around! I waited for you! Was I... Was I some kind of fucking burden?"

He remained silent, watching me with everyone else as I made a total ass of myself. I stared him down, as I felt the blood drip off of my fists and down my injured back. I could barely stand, as I struggled to keep myself steady in the middle of everyone.

My chest started to tightened, so I placed my left hand over it and clenched it. I had hoped that it would help, but it didn't. It hurt so much. My heart was going crazy inside of there, like it was trying to escape the cage around it.

"Tess?" I heard Aaron call out my name, but my vision started to become blurry. "Tess!"

I couldn't control what happened next when my eyes fell to the back of my head and my legs gave out underneath me, as I fell and crashed to the ground below me with a thud. The left side of my body hurt the most when that is the side that I fell directly onto.

Maybe I will just die of a broken heart because that's what was happening right now. I was legitimately dying of a broken heart without my brother here to pick me and all my shattered pieces up.