Author's note: Hope you enjoy reading! Happy Halloween! May you safely receive a bunch of candy!
Inspired by: Blinding by Florence and the Machine.
Blinding
He was dead. He couldn't be dead. He can't be dead. I've been in love with him for a long time. When he first left me I was heartbroken. I swore that I would get over him.
I visited all the countries that we had promised to visit with each other. I got a job that required me to be daring. I did everything possible to prevent myself from becoming a damsel in distress again. Eventually, I began to think that I was over him. Clearly, I was deluded.
I was not over him. I had never been over him. I had become a ghost when he had left me. When he left, I dreamt of living and so I did everything possible to bring myself to life. Visiting the countries was supposed to be my way of saying that I was not heartbroken over him.
The job was my way of saying that I never needed him or any other mortal prince. I don't need some mortal prince to save me. I did an excellent job of piecing the broken pieces of my heart back together. The problem was that the pieces of my heart weren't glued back together and so when he walked back into my life, I fell apart. My heart became his again.
When I woke up in that bed alone I should have known that the day would be filled with almost the exact heartbreak that I had experienced so long ago. Ben would be leaving me again, leaving me for good. He couldn't come back from the dead. No person can escape death when a fatal wound has been given. I crooned his name to him in panic on the plane. I begged him to stay with me. I begged him to keep breathing. I told him that help would be here if he held on a little longer. I pleaded with him and cried. Before long his warm body was cold, and stiff with death. He was gone.
No man can escape death. He can delay death, but he can't stop death. It has been an hour since Ben died. I'm still holding Ben's cold body. My face is buried in his neck. I try to imagine that I can feel the warm of his body. I look up once and try to catch Jai's eye. He catches me looking at him but he looks away.
I try to move away from Ben's body after I checked for his heartbeat. There was no calming beat of the heart. It's pathetic to be hugging a dead body. So pathetic to be hugging a dead body. I slowly move my hands from his body and see that my hands are stained with his blood.
I slide away from him. I feel sobs shaking in my throat. He's dead. He is truly dead. I wince when his head bangs against the metal floor of the plane. No mortal can come back from the dead.
Author's note: This was my attempt at the song challenge. I failed. The time limit had not suited me. Please review and tell me what you think! :D