"THERE ISN'T SHAME IS BEING WEAK BUT THERE IS SHAME IN STAYING WEAK"

Hey, quick writer note before we continue Carson story:

I am specially giving you all a chance to ask Carson questions as much as possible!!! Entries stops on Monday but if there isn't any question, I'll as well cancel it. Have a nice day!!!
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Carson POV

We kept on being friends after that day to the point it become so usual. After school off to a desert mall later to give it to the kids at the orphanage. Later on scarlet brought in two more girls to the group, Dolores Williams and Susan Wentworth.

We were the main squad in school those days. Then one fateful day after school in the playground Franklin brought up an idea. He suggested we all be in a squad named THE LORDS.

At first we all took it as child play. Franklin was always the funny and wild but slowly and gradually the name took root and we were THE LORDS feared by any other squad group.

No one dared try us and I liked it anyway as long as we still friends.

Soon after, relationship started forming in the squad Louis always liked Dolores from the start. So it didn't take time before they hit off. As for Felix and Susan, they are shy so it took a lot for them to admit.

Never did I ever see Felix so flustered. It was rare sight!

Then I started liking scarlet, honestly later off I fell in love with her, she was stunning, brave so resilient and only her smile can glow up my full day!! She had this dark nature and she embraced it.

One evening tho, when we hang out till it was dark, we all went our ways but Franklin stopped me on my way. He said he wanted to talk to me.

It was kind of weird but I still wanted to hear what he got to say.

"Carson you're a good guy you know that right" he said as we sat on the pavement staring at the bright blue sky.

"Yeah, thank you your not so bad yourself" I said throwing small stones on the road to while time.

"Carson can I tell you something" he said sounding emotional and I just had to look into his black gem eyes trying to look calm.

"Yeah I'm listening" I assured him.

"If something was to happen to me, what will be your reaction?" he said looking at me hesitantly.

"I can't imagine that, because you're alright...right" I said trying to laugh it through but when I notice he didn't follow the same suit. I got worried.

"What's up Franklin?" I asked concerned.

"Nothing Carson, just look over Felix for me at school, his my twin and all but I take him as my little brother, his soft and kind hearted....I ain't want any dumbass riding on him" Franklin said smiling.

I wondered if it was fake or genuine. It was hard to tell and that hurt me.

"Sure thing as long as you're here no one can touch him" I said smiling through the fret that lay in my head.

"Thank you Carson" he said more like a murmur as he gazes at the atmosphere.

"Sorry for wasting your time here...we should be getting home..See you in school tomorrow" Franklin said turning to take his leave before waving at me and I just wondered looking at him.

What was wrong?

Franklin is the funny one. Beside Louis, he was smiley too. I carried that thought with me as I walked back home. Maybe I was just exaggerating...or was I?

******( a week later)

I received a call from scarlet on that Saturday morning. The sun was all in its whole grandeur. The birds kept chipping the house smelt like pancakes and caramel and I was receiving a call from the love of my life (LOML), nothing could literally spoil my Saturday day!!

I picked up the phone and answered the call.

"Hey scarl...." I said as she cuts in.

"Franklin is dead" she said in sobs.

"What" I said as my smile dropped that instant same as my phone. The cracking sound of my phone screen, I'm not sure I heard it but my heart beat kept increasing it pace, it feel like amplifiers were jammed to my ears. I didn't know when tears rolled from my eyes. I felt numb, all my sense were blank.

Its all a joke right?!?

I ran out of the room in my night wear, running out of the gates, with my dad and others screaming my name but I couldn't care less. My throat felt twisted, the tears mounting up to its peak.

No Franklin couldn't be dead!!! I rush over there house, not caring if a car drove me over, I need to get there!! Please I just needed to get there. God please tell me it isn't true but if it isn't true why am I crying?

I sighted the yellow and white building and speedily ran inside. There they were the squad and their parents, there were no smiles like when we come to stay for lunch. I could hear cries in the room, screams deafening me to the core.

It all seemed like a Disney movie, he isn't dead is he? I kept asking I later got to his bedroom. And there he was still in his pajamas, a smile wretched on his dark skinned face.

He was smiling!! That means his alive or was I hysterical. I went closely holding his arms at his side. They felt cold and pale but that didn't stop me.

"Franklin wake up!!" I screamed at his lifeless body. I kept screaming to the point I lost my voice at the top of my lungs. Scarlet dragged me back.

"Leave me!!! He can't be dead...he can't" I said talking to myself trying to free myself from her tight grip but she was strong.

"Scarlet just let go!!" And she did and when I turned to look at her. Oh damn she was a mess, more than me. Her black curly hair in ruins, her eyes red, her nose running.

"Go on keep on pushing him!" she screamed back at me.

"What happened?" I said trying to keep my voice even but it sounded croaked.

"He had cancer, he refused to tell us...he wanted us not to worry and now his gone" she said looking me straight in the eye, wiping of her nose.

"Aren't there drugs to control cancer?" I asked. They could've saved him.

"what do you think they did that last summer, they went around the world looking for more drugs for him looking for doctors to save him....you think you're hurting check Felix or his parents....his gone Carson" she said trying to get closer to me back I just couldn't.

"What about THE LORDS the promise we made to each other, to grow together, to be there for one another" I said feeling my throat twist more tightly the tears knowing no bounds.

"He had the cancer since he was little Carson." Scarlet said as she came over to embrace me.

I held on because I couldn't lose her too. It was my first time losing someone special to me and it didn't feel good. I cried my heart out on her shoulder then we retreated to the living room. The first person I sighted was Felix.

He cried so much his eyes became a pale white. Of course his grief will be worst than me. He just lost his twin. His hunched shoulders looking at the wooden floors.

He looked dead, out of this world, sunken into this loneliness only he could comprehend.

"Felix" I said but he didn't even look up. He just stretches out a paper out to me and I hastily grabbed it. Looking at the paper, my eye socket widened as it was Franklin calligraphy. It was a letter.

DEAR LORDS.........

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    How was the chapter?? Sorry I had to do that😪😪.... RIP Franklin🙏🙏