Short Story

"No, no!" I wailed out as my arms reached for Issac's body. Muscular arms wrapped around my waist keep me from getting to him.

"Issac! No, no! Come back to me! You can't leave me! You said you'd never leave me," I scream until my voice breaks off into a whisper.

"Time of death, 20:49 pm," the solemn voice of a random doctor breaks into my pleading. The words take half a second to hit my brain. Two seconds later they are processed which causes a strangled cry to escape my throat as my legs give out from under me. The arms wrapped around my waist being the only thing keeping me up as my cries continue to get louder.

Without a warning, my mind feels like it's being taken from my body. I look at myself leaning heavily on Alec who's holding me up and silently crying as I sob loudly. I look around me at the people surrounding us, looking at me in sympathy and pity. Neither of which I want. I try to ignore it as I watch Alec try to comfort me and keep himself together. Neither seemed to be working as I continue to thrash in his arms sobbing, while he has even more tears quickly escaping his eyes as he looks over at Issac. Issac, I look over at his body and it like my mind is sucked back into my body as fast as it left it.

A scream of anguish leaves my throat as I continue looking at Issac. My sobbing seems to get impossible louder as the doctors try to move us into a private room away from people and Issac's body. Alec practically carries me the entire way there as my legs still don't seem to function. It makes it all the easier to collapse on the chair that Alec was trying to get me to sit on. I stare out blankly towards a wall as the doctors ask Alec question. Most of which I could assume was about our parents as we are all minors alone at a hospital.

I'm not sure how long that continued before I heard more voices enter the room. Familiar voices of our families. Of Issac's family questioning where he is. The questions only make my cry start again, the only difference is that this time the tears stream down my face only accompanied by silence. Alec on the other hand cries loudly at the mention of his dead best friend. Dead. Issac is dead. My boyfriend is dead. Gone forever. My soulmate is dead. I'm never going to be able to see him ever again. Those thoughts don't help as they only make the tears stream down my face quicker as I try to reign in my emotions.

I feel arms wrapped around my shoulders and a familiar scent drifting into my nose. My mom. My mom is hugging me. I don't acknowledge it, I do on the other hand finally move my vision from the blank wall to Alec. Alec who is sitting next to me crying loudly as his parents try to comfort him. On instinct my hand reaches over and grasps his tightly making him look at me. I nod at him for some reason and for some reason he nods back, like it's a nod of understanding that neither of us actually understand but it gives us comfort. Comfort which we both need more than anything at that very moment.

A sob almost as loud as my earlier ones is heard from across the room. Issac's parents seem to have collapsed onto a couch. His mother, Eliza is the one sobbing loudly as Issac's dad, Logan wraps his arms around her with silent and steady tears streaming down his face. Both make eye contact with me and Alec at the same time, before they stand and walk the two steps across the small room to embrace us. The four of us cry into the hugs as we mourn the loss of a big part in all of our lives.

Eliza and Logan both pull away from the hug, keeping us at an arms length incase they believe that they need to hug as again.

"We have decided to see Issac's body. Would you like to go with us?" Logan questions Alec and I hoarsely. Flashes of Issac's bloody body fill my mind. His hand hanging from the stretcher from when I was holding it before I was pulled away from him. His head tilted towards me and Alec with a small smile, as if to reassure us that everything would be okay. His eyes closing as he looked up towards the ceiling. His hand that was holding mine falling limp.

Alec shakes his head quickly in the motion of no like he was remembering the same things I was. Alec's dad seeing this nods towards the adults in the room as his parents make his stand and leave the room, presumable to take him home. The remaining adults in the room look towards me.

"Charlotte?" Eliza questions me quietly, seeing my eyes unfocus again as the memories of Issac flash through my mind in a quick bunch. I wanted to tell them no. No, I didn't want to see my dead boyfriend's body again. His bloody face trying to reassure me and his best friend as he died. But I needed to because he is my soulmate, dead or alive and I needed him. I needed to see him. So no wasn't my answer.

"Yes, I want to come with you," I tell them, speaking for the first time since Issac died in a quiet voice full of cracks. They nod and look at my parents as Eliza wraps me up in her arms to help me stand. Which I do on extremely shaky legs. The three of us leave the room as Logan wraps an arm around Eliza to comfort her and most likely himself as we turn a corner seeing a doctor that is vaguely familiar. He nods at us with a smile that is probably supposed to be comforting before leading us to a room that Issac was placed in. We slowly walk in as the doctor disappears to seemingly give us some privacy.

Eliza and Logan both push me towards Issac's body. I look over him as my hand reaches out grab his. It's still warm although barely.

"What were you thinking? Those guys were all sorts of sketchy and you continued to snark of to them. I get that it was your way of protecting Alec and I but it got you stabbed," a cry escapes me as I hold his hand tighter, "You got stabbed! You died! You promised that you'd never leave. That we would get married and have three kids because that's the number that we both agreed on. To get a big house with a pool and a fence. We were supposed to be happy this wasn't supposed to happen," my voice catches as my crying starts to make hiccups come through my throat and stop me from talking clearly. I take a deep breathe trying to calm myself and reign my emotions in.

"I love you so much Icy. And I will never stop. I will always love you," I finish croakily as I reach my head up to kiss his forehead. I step back, taking my hand from his. I look over at Eliza and Logan who are both already looking at me with sympathy and pity. I ignore it as I nod at them and leave the room. My parents are both down the hallway, seemingly waiting for me to come out of the room. They both walk over to me quickly and embrace me as they walk me out the hospital doors to take me home. The tears coming out of my eyes quickly as we leave. As I leave part of myself in that hospital, with Issac. A part of me I will never get back.

We get into the car and they drive away as I look out of the window at the dark sky. The stars shining back at me brightly like the worst thing that ever happened never did. I wish it never did, I wish it was a nightmare. But it wasn't. The love of my life is dead, along with a part of me. A part of me that made me happy. The part of me that made me remember why I wanted to live. But that parts gone and I don't want to live anymore. But I'm not supposed to think like that so I continue to look out the window at the dark sky and the bright stars.