Our small hands were tightly grasping the other.
We smiled at each other before breaking the link between us, running down the hill at high speed in the high yellowed grass under the blazing sun. Our laughter echoed in the empty hill, empty except from us, the grass, the bugs, the sun and the endless blue sky.
A sky that protected us all, that made us feel as if everything would always stay the same.
Yes… At that moment, as a child, we thought things would never change. That the two of us, we'd always stay together.
How wrong we were.
We weren't two anymore, reduced down to one.
Things would never be the same without him...
…Without Fred.