This is not an attack on anything really. Just a product of that corny 'some sad was on the news' thing and of exactly what the title suggests, sudden grief, a song came on that reminded me a little too much of my father. As a result this piece is fresh off my head and has yet to be beta'd and if I'm honest it's unlikely it will be.
Suing me would be futile as I own nothing.
She was mid conversation with Greg when she answered the phone, that was three weeks ago and she hasn't been the same since. We all watched in shock as she slide to the floor, repeatedly chanting "No!" no medical degree was needed to tell us she was in shock. All of us made sure she got safely back to hers, she was in no condition to be on her own. It was there we found out we weren't completely wrong in thinking her pet had died, something or rather someone had died, her best friend from the age of three.
All of us stayed at mine that night, taking in turns in watching her, saving her from every self destructive and violent habit she'd ever had. We watched our normally calm, stotic and unbreakable friend, cry like a child does for its loss of innocence. My own heart was breaking as I watched her go through old photo albums, as she wept on the phone to her friend's mother. Slowly though we got the story, one of life being ripped away from a woman in her prime, her crime such a punishment, fighting for her country's freedom.
We all flew to San Francisco with her and sat as the the bagpipes began their haunting tune. Over powering sense of uselessness filling as all as we saw the woman's mother collaspe into her arms, her eldery frail frame contorted with grief. Drank to the memory of a woman who none of us knew but from stories, consoled those who knew her well enough to see their lives grow a little bit darker with her passing.
I sit here now reflecting on these though few weeks as look at her prone body begging for her to wake up, Greg had found her earlier that night unconscious in her bottle littered front room. All her life she has had one rock that has disolved into another plane, I just hope she realises she now has many more who'll never replace the original but do our best to carry her through.