Jimmy’s P.O.V
My best friend was gone away from me. He wasn’t coming back. All of his family was in the room crying over our best friend, husband and father. Abby was coming from her mother’s arms wanting to be with her father.
“Abby no,” Katie whispered to her girl.
“Why crying mommy?” She asked her gently, “Daddy ok,” She said so innocently. I looked to my sister and see her grabbing her child and held her close as she left out of the room. How hard was it going to be to tell her two year old daughter that her father was dead? That he wasn’t going to come back, ever.
I looked over to Papa Gates who was hugging his son, crying over him. Me and my friends were looking at the motionless body wondering what had happened. Zacky was crying, Matt, Johnny, me, we were broken. He wasn’t just a guitar player, he was our brother. It was his decision not to listen to me but I should of stopped him. I should of done something about this instead of pacing my living room and wonder what to do.
“You should be with Katie,” I heard someone say. I looked down at the hand and saw that it was Matt’s strong hand. I looked to him and saw his aviators on and I nodded. Katie needed me, her big brother right now. The boys were keeping an eye on Brian’s dad and his baby sister who was clinging onto her father wondering what happened to her brother.
I went out into the waiting room and didn’t see Katie there, I looked in all of the rooms, the food place and even in the bathrooms but didn’t see her. I was getting worried about my baby sister and wondered if she went to be with Brian which made me even more scared. She couldn’t do something like that, not without her baby. Abby needed Katie and Katie needed to go and handle things.
Finally, I came over to this sanctuary, just a quiet place in the hospital were people can go and get better again, but for Katie it was to tell her daughter that daddy was asleep and wasn’t going to wake up. Ever. I heard Abby crying her eyes out and Katie was holding her tight and rocking her.
I came behind my sister and held them both as they cried.
“Why is daddy dead?” Abby cried, “Abby scared,” she cried and Katie rocked her, running her hair through her daughters hair telling her that everything was going to be alright, that I was going to be there for them.
“Mommy’s right baby girl,” She whispered to her daughter. Abby nodded and cried in her mothers chest while I held them. This wasn’t real, this wasn’t happening to us. Our Brian can’t be dead. He was so special to everyone, we couldn’t go on without them him at all.
“You guys alright?” I heard Papa Gates ask us. I nodded and kissed the top of my baby sisters head and held her as she cried.
“Grandpa,” Abby whispered. She was a bit calmer now but her mother was a wreck.
“Katie let me take Abby home alright?” Papa Gates came and grabbed his granddaughter and kissed Katie’s forehead and he left with Abby and Katie turned to me and clung onto me and cried. I held my sissy, rocking her and telling her that everything was going to be alright while I ran my fingers in her hair.
“I can’t live without him Jim Jam,” She told me. I was crying again. My heart was breaking even more when I heard this.
“Sissy no…please,” I cried. I rocked her trying everything to make her feel better but I knew that there was going to be nothing that was going to help her with this. Brian was everything to her, he was her husband her true love. They were inseparable for so long, high school sweethearts. Abby was their baby, the one that brought them even closer.
“I want to be with my Brian,” She whispered, “Please brother,’ She whispered. I was so scared I was going to lose my sister. That she wasn’t going to be with me anymore. I loved her with everything I had. I remember us being toddlers and making trouble. Then in high school with her and Brian sneaking around dating one another and how mad I got. My best friend was gone and now I had a strong feeling I was going to lose my baby sissy.
“I don’t want to lose you too sissy,” I whispered, nuzzling my face into her neck. I was crying, I held onto her tighter in my arms and rocked her. I can’t lose my sissy! “God please no Katie…” I cried.
“Just let me see my Brian,” She whispered to me. I knew that I wasn’t going to win so she wrapped her legs around my waist and I held her close to me and carried her to Brian’s room. Everyone was gone now and it was just Brian’s dead body laying there. Just a few more minuets and they would take him away from us. He would be gone forever.
I came to his bed side and set my sister down right beside him. That’s when I left the room and left them two alone knowing that I was going to lose my sister within time and I wasn’t ready for that.
Katie’s P.O.V.
He was so cold, my baby was so cold. I put my arm underneath his head and hugged him tight and cried. He was so cold and stiff and it scared me. He was gone, my baby. We had been through so much and now he was gone away from us. I don’t want him gone! He said forever! He told me each and every night that he was mine forever and eternity.
“Baby…wake up Brian,” I whispered, my fingers tracing on his lips. His cold lips, “Brian please,” I whispered. He didn’t say anything. Brian wouldn’t wake up and he wouldn’t say that it was a mistake, that it was some sick joke that he was playing just to see how much I loved him or something.
“I can’t live without you,” I whispered to him. I snuggled into his chest, just wanting his arms to wrap around me and hold me tightly against him. To feel warmth again, to feel his heart beat. But that was n’t coming. My Brian wasn’t coming back from me.
“I love you so much Brian, my hero. I never cheated on you baby. Why wouldn’t you listen? I love you to much to ever think of something like that?” I asked him. I came and kissed his cold and dead lips and told him that I would I would see him soon. That we would be in our eternity together.
Jimmy’s P.O.V.
I fell asleep in the waiting room waiting for my sissy to leave out of the room.
“James Sullivan?” I heard my name being called and I jolted awake. My neck hurt from sleeping on these very uncomfortable chairs and looked over to see a doctor standing there. He had a very sorrowful look on his face and my heart fell to my knees.
“Yes,” I said to nervous to stand. I was already shaking, the tears already in my eyes.
“Brian’s wife sir,” He said gently, “She’s passed away,” He told me. I looked at him with my jaw dropped and my heart broken. My sissy…my sissy was dead. I fell to my knees and cried, wanting anything for all of this to have never happened.
I sat there and cried, letting the words forever and always echo in my head.