When The Candles Burn

RATED MATURE FOR (TW): Curse/cuss words, graphic depictions of gore, major character death (character does not stay dead), attempted suicide, mentions of drug abuse (barely), talks of mental health issues(barely), large angst, slightly dysfunction family.

It's only a week away from Kirby's fourteenth birthday. Great! His friends are almost finished gathering materials for the party! But Kirby thinks otherwise, and sends a few concerning texts in the group chat. Now everyone feels bad, and bad evolves into worse. They quickly have to decode the messages Kirby sent to save him from himself, and to apologize.

On the other hand,

Kirby is done with the ignorance, ungratefulness, and problems called upon by these so-called friends he's made over the years. He's been trapping his contrasting view points for so long... He can't. He writes a note and tapes it to his door, he sends those texts and locks the door to the roof of Castle Dedede.

Finally, not only will he be free from all his pain, but he gets to watch from above as these friendships crumble, as they finally realize how fucked they are without him.

Do they ever even try to understand?

I'm not giving this an actual cover (I'm not a good artist and don't want to practically steal one from Google with no credits back to the artist).
Also going to post this on AO3 whenever I can get to it.