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TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO
I’ve never liked funerals.
Especially when it’s my mother’s.
The pretentiousness and the fake sympathy, or even the real tears,
are all useless. Why cry for someone who will never come back? They can’t
hear you, so the whole point behind crying is selfishness.
People don’t cry for the dead. People cry because of the uncontrollable
rush of their own emotions.
The grey clouds condense in the distance, forming one thick layer over
the other until the air is nearly black. Looks like the sky might start
weeping, too.
But why would it? Did it even know the woman lying in the casket?
The people surrounding it, throwing her favourite tulip flowers didn’t
know her either. They pretend they did, because she spent her entire life
running between charities and spending money we didn’t have.
Not that Gregory, my father, would’ve told her to do otherwise. He
cared for her wellbeing enough to swallow the knife with its blood.
I take a sip of my small stash of whiskey that I stole from my brother,
James, and let the burn soothe my throat. He’ll probably kill me, but I don’t
need him drunk on this day, of all days. At least I’m in full control of my
actions and myself.
Father is about to fall apart and if James does, too…well, fuck if I can
carry them both.
I sit at the back of the cemetery, in front of a grave that appears a few
decades old. Layers of dust cover the stone and the writing has been erased
by the hands of time. Birds’ waste clings to it like a second skin. One of the
forgotten dead.
“There you are.”
I don’t lift my head as my best friend, Ethan, sits beside me. He’s
wearing a black suit and his light hair that he usually leaves haphazard is
styled and neat.
At least he dressed up for the occasion. It took a funeral for that.
For a moment, he remains silent, his shoulder not far from mine as we
both stare at the forgotten grave with its unpleasant appearance and the
birds’ waste.
It’s me who breaks the silence, “Do you think her grave will be like this
one twenty years from now?”
“Not if you have a say in it.”
“True that.”
“Are you going back there?” He hesitates, his voice taking a
sympathetic turn. “Your father and James aren’t doing so well.”
“When have they ever?”
“They need you, Jon.”
“They need false promises and a machine to go back in time. I have
neither of those.”
“So you’re just going to stay here?”
“For the moment, yes. Screw off if the company bores you.”
“Fuck you.” He snatches my drink and takes a long pull. “I would never
leave you on a day like this.”
“Leave the sappy for Agnus.”
“Fuck you again. I’ll give you a pass for being a dick today.”
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