This is like a story for everyone feeling like cutting or killing themselves. One of my friends who had been clean for a while relapsed and, well, this is mostly for him.
I sobbed and clutched the jacket in my clammy hands. I knelt beside the solid gray marble and leaned against it, pressing my forehead To the cool rock. Tears trickled down my cheeks like rivers, and landed one after another onto the grass. I pressed my face into the jacket in my hands and let out a shriek and another bout of sobbing. Everyone else had left hours ago, off to grieve on their own, but I stayed behind. "I promised you. I promised I would be here for you," I whispered and resisted the urge to beat my own brains out with a rock. "I made a promise and I couldn't keep it and now your de-," I choked on the word. I couldn't say it.
Four days ago, my best friend swallowed a handful of pills. By the time his brother found him, he was gone. I remember standing at the funeral by the casket, crying silently. I couldn't help it. That one messy strand hung in his face like always, so I pushed it back. It drove him crazy.
I draped my arms around the stone and cried, the jacket hanging over my arms. I breathed in the scent and let out another quivering sob. "I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry," I whispered.