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#15 Why Did You Have To Leave (Part 2)

Meliodas's eyes shot open and a large relieved grin covered his face.

"Zeldris! You won't believe the dream I just had! You had gone back to drugs again and overdosed! I was so worried it was real. Where are you?"

He walked around the house as he went excitedly towards his younger brother's room, wanting to tell him about the bizarre and realistic dream.

Entering the room, he immediately found his brother laying on his bed with earbuds in, clearly sucked into whatever it was he was doing.
The room was bright and full of his little niknacks, nothing like the empty space that had been in his dream.

"Ya know, you really scared me there, for a second I thought it... was... real.."

His voice trailed off as the room changed back to the dark and dreary place and his brother was no longer on the bed. Leaving it empty and quiet.

Oh.. it was real.. He really is.. dead. I must have been hallucinating again.

It had been two months now since the... incident. No one had heard from nor seen Meliodas, no matter how much they tried to reach out to him.
However, in the state he was in.. maybe it was better no one saw him.

His hair was matted and had grown out to his shoulders rather than the short but messy cut that others were used to, and his hygiene wasn't in much of a better condition.

He reaked of the alchohol he was guilty of drinking as well as body oder due to him not taking showers or brushing his teeth in a worrisome amount of time, not even having the energy to do those simple tasks.

The alchohol had started small, maybe a glass or two a day to help him calm down, but eventually the glass turned into three, all within an hour, which turned into five, and the cycle continued to spiral until he would pass out drunk.

There were days where he didn't drink at all due to wanting to feel the pain, he wanted a hangover to consume him to punish himself for not seeing the depression consuming his brother, which lead to him turning to drugs. He wanted to feel the grief and the agony his brother must have felt when he was dying in his failure of a brother's arms.

The only thing about these days, was that he didn't sleep at all. Which caused hallucinations after a few days, and eventually passing out and waking up again later, forgetting that his brother had even died. Today was one of those days, and he almost felt cheated because his hallucination ended so soon.

After all, in the past he had managed to have full conversations with "Zeldris" but today, he didn't even get that closure.

Interrupted from his scattered and depressed thoughts by the sound of his phone ringing, he didn't even have the energy to ignore it, simply opening it and putting it to his ear to get the conversation over with.

"He picked up! Ban, get over here!"

"He did? Well what did he say?! How does he sound!?"

"I don't know yet idiot! He hasn't said anything!"

He stared blankly at the wall as this continued back and forth for awhile, not really paying attention until the call of his nickname.

"Listen, Cap'n. We haven't seen you in two months, in fact, no one has. This isn't healthy... I know you're grieving, and I know that you're hurting, but this is only going to make it worse. Me and King are gonna stop by again later, we hope you'll let us in this time. Anyway.. I'll hand it back over to King."

He could hear the sound of whispers being exchanged before a nervous King came back on the phone, stuttering a bit before taking a deep breath and saying what was on his mind.

"Um.. hey. I-I don't really know what to say here.. I mean, how do you tell your grieving friend that it's going to be okay? I um... I'm probably the closest to understanding what you're going through. After all, Elaine was in a coma for years before she woke up. I had lost all hope and was even planning on taking her off of lifesupport.. but, at the last second she pulled through."

Meliodas's hand on the phone gripped tightly, silent anger washing over him.

"Shit, that.. that was a bad example.. All I'm saying is, I know what it's like to lose all hope, but.. when I did you were there for me more than any of the others. I.. I will always remember what you told me that day, and I hope you do too, because you need to here those words right now. "Even in the darkest moments of someone's life, there is always at least one ray of light shining through, becasue if there wasn't, you would be able to tell that it's a dark moment." I hope you take away from those words the same thing that I had. Anyway.. I-I'll see you around. Bye."

As the dial tone came on, Meliodas was still. He didn't move the phone from his ear, nor did he stop looking at that one spot on the wall. For a second, it looked like he was stuck. Frozen in time in that one moment.. However, the scowl that slowly formed on his face, and the white of his knuckles from how hard he clenched his phone, proved otherwise.

Throwing the object with great force, he was disappointed that the sickening crunch of the phone hitting the the wall and the dent left after the effort didn't curb the building fury in him.

"You don't understand anything.... she lived, he didn't. Where's the hope in that?"

With that harsh mutter, he went back towards the drinking cabinet, planning on passing out drunk by the time the two buddy's got there. And he succeeded, his only flaw in this plan being that he had given the two a spare key before everything had happened..

They would finally see how broken this one person was.

I'm sorry for making you guys cry! Hope this chapter was okay. Also please comment on how you liked the chapter. I'm thinking of making a similar but slightly less sad oneshot.

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