Song: Sunset Borderline by Sandi Thom (Every suns got to set with time, but I'll remember those moments for evermore.)
Characters: Mello on Matt's death.
Rating: T
Genre: Horror, death, grief.
Hit shuffle on your playlist, and write a drabble in the time it takes each song to play.
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He was gone now.
Someone else I had outlived, someone else I'd had to watch fade away. Someone else to mourn. Just another name added to a list that was too long already.
Oh, but he was different. He was special. While the others faces, voices and mannerisms of the people I held close would fade, he would always stay, in my memory, like a photograph; captured forever.
That was why I didn't go to his funeral. I didn't want to remember him as cold and lifeless. I wanted to think of how his eyes sparkled when he smiled and how his laugh lit up the world. I wanted to remember him happy, not dead.
Yes, he was gone. But I wasn't, and I'd always remember.