A year ago today;
6 missed calls, three messages:
“Please pick up”
It was a tuesday evening and I was locking up the shop. We hadn’t spoken since I’d cooled things between us a month or two before and I was suppose to be on the way to another boys house.
But he needed me. I knew he needed me.
Without hesitation I called him back, and a whimpering mess sobbed into the receiver,
“She’s gone… Amy’s gone… She’s gone….”
At the young age of 18, she lost the battle against depression and took her own life. My body turned to jelly and the room began to spin around me, heart throbbing in my throat, chest stone cold…
I ran out to meet him and he collapsed in a heap, my arms the only thing keeping him together. He wept so heavy, so desperately and I fell apart around him. We sat there in the middle of the pathway and the world dissolved around us. We only wanted each other… only needed each other, and we clutched one another tightly, scared the world would try and separate us again…
This has always been one of the most tragically beautiful moments in the history of us and I smile and cry whenever I reminisce.
We held each other a little longer and tighter this morning, and he called me back to kiss my forehead tell me he loved me most. Its a harsh but important reminder to not take the ones you love for granted, one day you might not get the chance to tell them…
Gone but not forgotten.
R.I.P Amy, be partying hard up there baby girl