Before

A Dreaded Goodbye

      I didn't know I fell asleep. I suppose somewhere in my saddened rage I managed to do so, curled on the floor in weakness, I just laid there. Ignoring the sound of the door being unlocked and opened, if it was time or if it were death, take me.
I didn't fucking bloody care anymore.
Boots covered in snow, and pants whitened of it. The white fallen pieces of ice slowly fell to the ground as the boots stomped, and made their way in front of me.
"Why are you on the floor?"
"Honestly, I don't all exactly know, why I'm on the floor." I was so fed up I didn't even bother to look, I kept my eyes on the boots, until the figure kneeled before me.
"You didn't read my note. It could've been important." My eyes shot up to him, "my dear Grant Everly what has gotten into you, why have you been crying?"
Instead of helping me to my feet he cradled me into his arms and lifted me into the air.
Sitting me down he continued to kneel at my side.
Feeling drowsy, I blinked it away, or so I thought. "I couldn't find you in the city, and I looked all around. It's been two days, two whole days."
Laughing, Stone stood to his feet, and kissed my head. "Oh, Grant. When we arrived home that night, someone appeared. They were crying, and so full of an empty sadness, I thought that I had gone mad.
But you had a fever, and you were blazing like a tamale from hell. So I left, yet what troubled me, was the fact that I couldn't find what I needed locally. Which caused me to then travel to the next town over, and another. I left a note but you never read it.
It must've gotten lost.
Besides that my love, I met a man. And he told me that you needed me now, that I shouldn't worry of your sickness. That by the time I arrive you'd be better now. I didn't mean to of upset you, it was foolish of me, I should have woken you up. And just gave you tea.
Tea makes us all better."
I couldn't stop myself, as I cried.
I've found him, oh how I've found him.
But now that he is here.....
I have to say goodbye.