"The sky is crying, too"
She first heard this saying at her grandmothers funeral. The grandmother who always told her to believe in herself. To fulfill her dreams and reach for the stars. That's what she did. Her whole life long.
This day at the cemetery, she stood between her dad and Archer. Both were holding a hand of hers.
It was raining. When she thought of funerals it was always raining in her imagination. It was dark and misty and raining. Sun would feel wrong. Sun makes the people happy. Cheers them up. But when you loose a loved person you are not happy and you don't want to be cheered up. You want to cry. It hurts to bad that you just want to cry.
It was raining that day when her grandmother was buried, when the pastor talked about her long life and everything she had achieved. That she had a long and fulfilled life and it was time for her to go.
It was raining and her dad had leaned down to her shortly before they left for the funeral. He had wiped a tear from her cheek and had told her "The sky is crying, too."
Addison was sitting in Archer's room. She remembered her grandmother's funeral so clearly. Every word that was spoken that day. Every gesture. She remembered how she sat in the hallway closet and cried when the people came to their home after the funeral was over. She remembered when the door was opened and Archer walked in with her favorite Teddy Bear "Barney". She remembered when her big brother sat down next to her and fumbled with all the coats hanging in there. The people came in coats because it was raining. Because "The sky was crying, too."
She remembered how Archer hugged her and told her, Grandma Rose was in heaven now, with Emma, their guinea pig, who died two years ago. She remembered how they stayed in the closet till all the people were gone a few hours later.
She sat in Archer's room and saw the rain outside. She was in Seattle of course, but today the rain was not just rain. It meant more to Addison. It meant that the sky was crying with her.
She again remembered the speech the pastor gave. The speech about Grandma Rose's long and fulfilled life. That it was time for her to go. She saw Archer lying in his hospital bed, hooked up to all the machines. He didn't have a long and fulfilled life. No. And it wasn't time for him to go. It wasn't for a long time.
When Derek came to take Archer into surgery. Addison cried. She cried because it hurt so much and she just wanted to cry. She cried and the sky over Seattle was crying, too.
Callie was on her side and took Addison with her into the chapel. There she knelt down an prayed. She prayed to a God she wasn't even sure could hear her and asked him to save Archer. She prayed to Grandma Rose to be there for her brother when God couldn't save him.
Addison didn't know for how long she had been kneeling there. But when she looked up the rain had stopped. The sky had stopped crying and the sun tried to cheer her up.