" rose you can't deny it you are irracocably in love with me! you have been since day one!" i was a bit loud but she was on the phone so she could easily turn the volume down

" and you are irrivocably in love with the last fifth of scotch, christ how much have you drank adrian!"

" IT WAS WHISKEY you nit wit! What are you talking about little damphire i'm stoned sober!" I said with a giggle, hiccupped and laughed some more " i just want you to know that no matter what I love you little rose, it's a shame that that cradle robber stole your heart"

" Adrian!" she shouted " i'm coming over to kick your ass for thhat"

" I wouldent do that rose, you won't like what you find. Lissa has great potential you know this will give her the chance to excell in her spirit abilities. I always loved her to, but more ike a sister you know. you you were always just so beautiful."

" Adrian what are you talking about?"

" Listen to this beautiful song rose, is;nt it just so lovely?" I started singing along to it faintly aware of her shouting into teh phone for me to stop my incecent howling. i thought i was a good singer.

If life was going to continue to deny me what I wanted then I guess i diddn't want to play the game anymore, i stumbled over to my bedside drawer and pulled out my grandfathers gun, it was only a .22 caliber shot but it was beautiful it was a revolver with an ivory handle, ironically a rose was carver out of the ivory on the side opposite of the palm you held it with.

" She put him out" I sang along " like the burning end of a midnight ciggarettttttt, SHE BROKE HIS Heart! he spent his whole life trying to forget..." she was yelling on hte other line

" He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger... life was short but this time it was bigger than the strength he had to get up off his knees" I walked over to the phone and picked it up " la la la la la la la, la la la la l alalalalalalalaaaa" I kneeled on my bed at the foot leaning forward just slightly to touch the picture i had their of roe and lissa laughing. I cocked the gun

" Adrian, what was that?" Rose said

" Nothing, I love you rose"

" I love you to Adrian, i'm just not IN love with you, now what was that"

" Good-bye Rose" i set the phone down to my left.

" Don't you hang up on me, Adrian!" I could here rose, she was mad. I smiled. Picking up hte photo i let the tears fall from my face and onto the beautiful photo. I pressed the photo to my lips then laid it on my pillow. my revolver was cocked " good bye my love" i whispered. with my lips sputtering and quivering like an idiot I pulled the trigger.

RPOV

Adrian had the song on repeat for the past few minutes and he was mumbling, I knew the song it was called "whiskey lullabye" he was singing and mumbling all of a sudden i heard a click, it sounded like the primer of a gun my heart dropped

" Adrian, what was that?" I panicked

" Nothing, I love you rose" what was he talking about, why was he telling me this, he's drunk

" I love you to Adrian, i'm just not IN love with you, now what was that" i told him

" Good-bye Rose"

" Don't you hang up on me, Adrian!". Now i was mad, he drunk dialed me confessed his stupid love to me then hangs up on me? oh no

" good bye my love" He whispered.

He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger

and finally drank away her memory

life is short, but this time it was bigger

than the strength he had to get up off his knees

BANG! gunfire

I screamed as the realization hit me like a sledge hammer. I ran out of my room and across campus to adrians dorm. theire were already gaurdians and dorm matrons there his door was unlocked so islammed it open and ran to his bed.

There he was.

we found him with his face down in hte pillow

"with a note that said i'll love her till i die".

The gun was in his hand, a single round in his head. I screamed and laid down on top f him. I stroked his breath and begged him to come back. the tears were falling, i noticed a paper on the pillow next to his head it was a picture. the tears turned to sobs and the pain in my chest grew.

" i'm sorry, come back, adrian please! please come back this isn't fair"

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