When Are You Going To Get Better?

Song for the chapter:
In The Embers by Sleeping At Last
^That song is amazing. And so is the band.

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Alex was sitting alone one day near a pond, skipping stones in the water, the ripples afterwards showing the disturbed element.

He hadn't seen the girl for a few days now, for she was at home, fighting a flu. This left Alex alone with thoughts that he used to think were strange. One thought seemed to stick out in particular today.

Death.

It was a very hard thing to grasp. We live, and then, we die. Our heart giving the last beat and our mouths giving one last shaky breath, ending our physical form. Leaving our friends and family still on this earth, and they are left to grieve.

Alex didn't know how this subject got on hand, but it did; and it was his least favorite thing to think about.

He didn't necessarily have a fear of death, but he feared the emptiness of the person that died, the emptiness he would feel. The grieving and the numbness that makes your mind dull and your eyes hurt from crying. Alex never lost someone, only one family member that he didn't get to see that much. But the people who did know that family member, they looked so in pain.

Alex shook his head, and skipped another stone. He was overthinking. He missed the girl, the way she smiled, but his parents wouldn't let him see her just in case he caught the bug as well.

He hated it.
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I'm sorry, I'm a bit sad right now. So a sad topic. Sorry. ;-;