Funeral for a friend
Phil wen't into the hospital by himself to see Luci. He wen't straight into the ward were he had stayed and went over to Lucis bed. It was empty. He was confused. "I had said I was visiting why wasnt she there?" he gently said. He saw a nurse and rushed over to her.
"Excuse me nurse. Hi I'm here to see Luci Osbourne do you know were she is?"
She looked at him with the look of sympathy that he was used to getting now.
"I'm sorry, but she didn't make it through the night"
Phils world fell around him.
"What do you mean?"
"She died. Late last night"
He fell to his knees and cried out loud. "This was my fault! If I hadn't left her she'd still be here!"
The nurse bent down and hugged Phil
"It is not your fault. She was very ill"
"But she was getting Cemotherapy she should of got better. Like me"
"Luci had a very deadlt type of cancer. Breast cancer. There was not much chance of her surviving"
He cried even more "But she didn't deserve to die. She was the nicest most caring person ever"
"Unfortunatly cancer doesn't care who or how you are. I'm very sorry. Where you family?"
"I am... I was her boyfriend"
"I'm very sorry. All the nurses loved Luci she was so full of life"
"That is what I never got. If she knew she was dying why was she so upbeat all the time?"
"Well I supose she felt that she may aswell do the best she could with her life."
Phil stopped crying and stood up
"Your right. She wouldn't want me to be doing this. Thank you nurse" he rushed out of the ward and headed home
"Your welcome" said the nurse watching him run away
Phil stood staring into the mirror. Trying to make his tie perfect. He couldn't shake the thought that if he hadn't left she wouldn't of died. A tear rolled down his cheek
"You ready bro?" he turned to see his sister standing at his new door
"I'll never be ready for this" she walked upto to her brother and hugged him. He cried again
"Come on bro you'll feel better once this is over"
"I loved her"
"How do you know?"
"I never felt this way about anyone"
"I believe you did love her. And I know she loved you"
He broke his sisters embrace "Thanks Lil"
"No problem come on let's get going"
He nodded and followed his sister out of the room. He got outside to see all his friends waiting for him. All dressed in black. Tommy was actually looking neat it was worrying to Phil.
"Thanks for coming with me guys I know you didn't know her very well. This means a lot to me"
Kimi walked up to him and hugged him "We know how important she was to you. We all liked her to"
He smiled and got into Chuckies van. The others followed. Lil sat next to Phil and held his hand all the way to the cemetry.
Phil jumped out the back and walked up to Lucis parents.
"Hi Mr and Mrs Osbourne. How are you doing?"
He was greeted by 2 warm smiles "Hi Philip. As well as could be expected. How about you?"
"Pretty much the same"
Mr. Osbourne put his hand on Phil's shoulder. "Come on you should sit up front with us" Phil noddd solemy and went with the Osbournes
The others watched as Phil left with Lucis parents.
"I hope he'll be Ok" said Lil
"He managed to get through cancer. So I'm sure he'll be fine, but this will be tough for him" said Tommy while Kimi hugged his arm.
"Come on" said Chuckie putting his hand on Lils she took his hand in hers before realising were she was, She took her hand away quickly and headed to the chapel. Chuckie sighed and followed. As did Dil
"Those 2 really need to get together" said Kimi
"Phil says he told them both so I dunno what is stopping them."
"Maybe it's the fact that Lil has had a lot on her mind with Phil"
"Yeah. I'm just glad we got together when we did" He said taking her hand
"Me to. We better catch up"
They followed into the chapel and sat down at the back with the others. There was a large picture of Luci before she was diagnosed on the wall.
"Wow she was beautiful" said Kimi
"Yeah." Dil said staring at the picture in front of them. Then the chaplin came out and read aloud.
"Family, friends. We are all here to honour the memory of Luci Rosie Osbourne. She was a very outgoing and loving person. All who met her had their lives changed for the better. Even though she was dying with cancer. She still managed to find love with a very special young man"
The guys saw Phil take his head in his hand and Mrs Osbourne putting her arm around him
"Now that young man will be saying a few words on Lucis parents behalf"
Phil stood up and wiped his eyes. He walked ep to the podium.
"For those of you who do not know who I am. I'm Philip DeVille. I spent the last month or so with Luci and we got very close. In fact we fell in love." A tear rolled down his cheek "She was the most amazing person I had ever met. I remember the first day we met. I came into the hospital to begin my Cemotherapy. She came up to me straight away and introduced herself. She never stopped talking since" A small laugh came from the family. "I was there under very similar circumstances, unfortunatly not similar enough" He let another tear drop down his cheek "But the moment I entered that ward my life was turned upside down with a simple smile. When I found out I had cancer I couldn't do anything to make myself or anyone around me feel better. Then Luci smiled. Everything changed." He laughed "Even when she cut off my eyebrow I loved being around her. When I met her parents in the hospital it was easy to see how she became the person she was. In away I'm glad I had my disease or I would never have met such a wonderful family or a wonderful person. I would like to conclude with something a good friend once told me. The good die young" He began to cry as he came down from the podium. Lucis Mom gave him a hug when he sat down.
A few more family memebers went up and spoke of Luci, but without as much feeling as Phil.
Once they had finished. The congregation walked out with the coffin. Phil asked if he could help carry the coffin. Lucis Uncle Ben let him take over from him. Once she was buried Phil stood for nearly 20 minutes by himself.
"You really did love her didn't you?" said a voice coming behind him. He turned to see his sister
"Yeah..... Yeah I did"
"What you said in there. It was really beautiful"
"It was all off the top of my head. I spoke from my heart"
"I know you did. Her family seem to like you"
"Well as I said it was because of them she was the person she became."
"We better go or we'll miss the wake"
"Ok... Goodbye Luci. I'll never forget you"
He walked away with his sister and she rubbed his back. At the wake being held at Lucis home Phil and his friends got to meet her family.
"I can't tell you how touched we all are with what you said about our Luci" said a very old women
"Yes we can see you are a very lovely young man" said another
"I did love her"
"We can see. Your such a lovely young man" the old women repeated. Lucis Mom came over and put her hand on Phils shoulder.
"Would you excuse us"
She took Phil away
"Thank you. You don't know how much it means to us for you to do this for us"
"Hey thats fine. I was happy to get all that off my chest"
"Would you like to see her room? If it is not to strange"
"That would be nice. Thank you"
"It is the one directly infront of the stairs"
"Thanks"
He entered the room and looked around. The room was covered in posters of his favourite bands. He walked over to her CD collection and looked through. They were all the same ones he had. Which made him smile. He took out a CD from his pocket looked at the picture of himself and the others on the back. He put it in her collection.
"There's one you liked, but couldn't get" he said gently
"Always trying to promote your band"
He looked up to see kimi standing at the door with Tommy
"Hey guys. She always liked our band. I was her favourite though" he laughed slightly
"I can see" said Tommy looking at her posters
"How you doing man?" asked Kimi
"Better than I thought"
"Well we came up to tell you we're impressed." said Tommy
"With what?"
"Your speech. It was really moving" said Kimi
"Yeah it moved Kimi and Lil to tears. And Chuckie but I told him I wouldn't tell you" Kimi said nudging him in the ribs
"You know I got an idea" said Kimi
"Yeah what?"
"Well when we were younger and missed our real parents. Mom and Dad would get Chuckie and I to write them a letter. We'd tie it to a balloon and let it go. In a way we felt like they would read it. Maybe you should try that"
Phil smiled at Kimi "I may just do that. Thanks guys"
"Hey don't thank me it was Chazz and Kiras idea"
Hw laughed "I'll thank them then."
===== Downstairs ======
Chuckie was talking to Lucis younger sister when he saw Lil out the corner of his eye.
"Sorry excuse me" he said politely
He walked over to Lil and smiled at her. She smiled back and blushed a little.
"How you doing?"
"I'm fine, but seeing so many sad people. I feel a bit out of place"
"I know how you feel. Fancy a walk?"
"Yeah that'll be nice"
They both got up and went out of the front door. They walked a few blocks in silence before Lil spoke
"Do you think we should of left Phil?"
"He's with the others. Plus Lucis family seem to like him"
"Yeah they are really nice people. So how are you doing?"
"I'm cool. I'm more worried about Kimi"
"Why?"
"Since she found out Dad wasn't her biological father she hasn't been able to cope aswell at funerals"
"Wow I never knew that she was so sensitive over these things. I'm such a bad friend" She began crying
He hugged her "No your not. Your her best friend and you've always been there for her....and me"
She walked back and looked into his eyes. They sparkled with tears. She moved in slowly and kissed him. Neither of them were expecting it and when they finished they went in to denial. They looked away,
"......We should get back" said Chuckie
"Yeah we should"
They practically ran back to the house. For the rest of the day they didn't speak to each other. They were too embarassed about what had happened. It was about an hour later when the guys said there goodbyes and left the Osbournes home. Phil hadn't said anything on the ride home. He thought about Kimis advice.
"PHIL!"
"Huh?"
"Were home"
"Oh sorry thanks Chuck"
"See ya Phil. Lil" said Chuckie and the others
"See ya" said Phil
Lil totally ignored Chuckie and headed into her house
"Wow that was weird" said Dil
"Yeah Lil is always nice to Chuckie....unless" said Kimi looking at her brother as did the others.
"What?... Don't be crazy we didn't do anything. It was a funeral"
"Yeah ok we'll let it go for now" said Kimi as Tommy and Dil got out the van.
"I'll call you later ok babe" said Tommy kissing Kimi
"Ok see ya" she said smiling and closing the door
Chuckie started his car and drove home.
Kimi began singing "Chuckie and Lil, sitting in a tree..."
"Shut up!"
She laughed loudly and continued to sing "K-I-S-S-I-N-G"
Chuckie stopped the van and pushed his sister out the door and sped away.
"Aww Chuckie stop being such a baby!!!!" she shouted after his van, but he didn't stop "Fine" she said and turned around and walked back to Tommys "Bastard"
Tommy was sat infront of the TV when the doorbell rang. He jumpe up and opened it to see Kimi standing at the door
"You didn't sing the kissing song did you?"
"Well just a bit. He threw me out before I could finish"
He laughed as he let her in.
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Well that was her funeral. Phil said some very nice things didn't he. I apologise to all those who would of liked to got to know Luci better, but it's a bit late to change it now. To all my reviewers (Especially Princess Punky you like to review don't you :-D ) I'd like to say thanks, your reviews are what make me keep writing. I kept forgeting to add this at the end so sorry if you think its a bit late. Hope your enjoying please R/R
Phil wen't into the hospital by himself to see Luci. He wen't straight into the ward were he had stayed and went over to Lucis bed. It was empty. He was confused. "I had said I was visiting why wasnt she there?" he gently said. He saw a nurse and rushed over to her.
"Excuse me nurse. Hi I'm here to see Luci Osbourne do you know were she is?"
She looked at him with the look of sympathy that he was used to getting now.
"I'm sorry, but she didn't make it through the night"
Phils world fell around him.
"What do you mean?"
"She died. Late last night"
He fell to his knees and cried out loud. "This was my fault! If I hadn't left her she'd still be here!"
The nurse bent down and hugged Phil
"It is not your fault. She was very ill"
"But she was getting Cemotherapy she should of got better. Like me"
"Luci had a very deadlt type of cancer. Breast cancer. There was not much chance of her surviving"
He cried even more "But she didn't deserve to die. She was the nicest most caring person ever"
"Unfortunatly cancer doesn't care who or how you are. I'm very sorry. Where you family?"
"I am... I was her boyfriend"
"I'm very sorry. All the nurses loved Luci she was so full of life"
"That is what I never got. If she knew she was dying why was she so upbeat all the time?"
"Well I supose she felt that she may aswell do the best she could with her life."
Phil stopped crying and stood up
"Your right. She wouldn't want me to be doing this. Thank you nurse" he rushed out of the ward and headed home
"Your welcome" said the nurse watching him run away
Phil stood staring into the mirror. Trying to make his tie perfect. He couldn't shake the thought that if he hadn't left she wouldn't of died. A tear rolled down his cheek
"You ready bro?" he turned to see his sister standing at his new door
"I'll never be ready for this" she walked upto to her brother and hugged him. He cried again
"Come on bro you'll feel better once this is over"
"I loved her"
"How do you know?"
"I never felt this way about anyone"
"I believe you did love her. And I know she loved you"
He broke his sisters embrace "Thanks Lil"
"No problem come on let's get going"
He nodded and followed his sister out of the room. He got outside to see all his friends waiting for him. All dressed in black. Tommy was actually looking neat it was worrying to Phil.
"Thanks for coming with me guys I know you didn't know her very well. This means a lot to me"
Kimi walked up to him and hugged him "We know how important she was to you. We all liked her to"
He smiled and got into Chuckies van. The others followed. Lil sat next to Phil and held his hand all the way to the cemetry.
Phil jumped out the back and walked up to Lucis parents.
"Hi Mr and Mrs Osbourne. How are you doing?"
He was greeted by 2 warm smiles "Hi Philip. As well as could be expected. How about you?"
"Pretty much the same"
Mr. Osbourne put his hand on Phil's shoulder. "Come on you should sit up front with us" Phil noddd solemy and went with the Osbournes
The others watched as Phil left with Lucis parents.
"I hope he'll be Ok" said Lil
"He managed to get through cancer. So I'm sure he'll be fine, but this will be tough for him" said Tommy while Kimi hugged his arm.
"Come on" said Chuckie putting his hand on Lils she took his hand in hers before realising were she was, She took her hand away quickly and headed to the chapel. Chuckie sighed and followed. As did Dil
"Those 2 really need to get together" said Kimi
"Phil says he told them both so I dunno what is stopping them."
"Maybe it's the fact that Lil has had a lot on her mind with Phil"
"Yeah. I'm just glad we got together when we did" He said taking her hand
"Me to. We better catch up"
They followed into the chapel and sat down at the back with the others. There was a large picture of Luci before she was diagnosed on the wall.
"Wow she was beautiful" said Kimi
"Yeah." Dil said staring at the picture in front of them. Then the chaplin came out and read aloud.
"Family, friends. We are all here to honour the memory of Luci Rosie Osbourne. She was a very outgoing and loving person. All who met her had their lives changed for the better. Even though she was dying with cancer. She still managed to find love with a very special young man"
The guys saw Phil take his head in his hand and Mrs Osbourne putting her arm around him
"Now that young man will be saying a few words on Lucis parents behalf"
Phil stood up and wiped his eyes. He walked ep to the podium.
"For those of you who do not know who I am. I'm Philip DeVille. I spent the last month or so with Luci and we got very close. In fact we fell in love." A tear rolled down his cheek "She was the most amazing person I had ever met. I remember the first day we met. I came into the hospital to begin my Cemotherapy. She came up to me straight away and introduced herself. She never stopped talking since" A small laugh came from the family. "I was there under very similar circumstances, unfortunatly not similar enough" He let another tear drop down his cheek "But the moment I entered that ward my life was turned upside down with a simple smile. When I found out I had cancer I couldn't do anything to make myself or anyone around me feel better. Then Luci smiled. Everything changed." He laughed "Even when she cut off my eyebrow I loved being around her. When I met her parents in the hospital it was easy to see how she became the person she was. In away I'm glad I had my disease or I would never have met such a wonderful family or a wonderful person. I would like to conclude with something a good friend once told me. The good die young" He began to cry as he came down from the podium. Lucis Mom gave him a hug when he sat down.
A few more family memebers went up and spoke of Luci, but without as much feeling as Phil.
Once they had finished. The congregation walked out with the coffin. Phil asked if he could help carry the coffin. Lucis Uncle Ben let him take over from him. Once she was buried Phil stood for nearly 20 minutes by himself.
"You really did love her didn't you?" said a voice coming behind him. He turned to see his sister
"Yeah..... Yeah I did"
"What you said in there. It was really beautiful"
"It was all off the top of my head. I spoke from my heart"
"I know you did. Her family seem to like you"
"Well as I said it was because of them she was the person she became."
"We better go or we'll miss the wake"
"Ok... Goodbye Luci. I'll never forget you"
He walked away with his sister and she rubbed his back. At the wake being held at Lucis home Phil and his friends got to meet her family.
"I can't tell you how touched we all are with what you said about our Luci" said a very old women
"Yes we can see you are a very lovely young man" said another
"I did love her"
"We can see. Your such a lovely young man" the old women repeated. Lucis Mom came over and put her hand on Phils shoulder.
"Would you excuse us"
She took Phil away
"Thank you. You don't know how much it means to us for you to do this for us"
"Hey thats fine. I was happy to get all that off my chest"
"Would you like to see her room? If it is not to strange"
"That would be nice. Thank you"
"It is the one directly infront of the stairs"
"Thanks"
He entered the room and looked around. The room was covered in posters of his favourite bands. He walked over to her CD collection and looked through. They were all the same ones he had. Which made him smile. He took out a CD from his pocket looked at the picture of himself and the others on the back. He put it in her collection.
"There's one you liked, but couldn't get" he said gently
"Always trying to promote your band"
He looked up to see kimi standing at the door with Tommy
"Hey guys. She always liked our band. I was her favourite though" he laughed slightly
"I can see" said Tommy looking at her posters
"How you doing man?" asked Kimi
"Better than I thought"
"Well we came up to tell you we're impressed." said Tommy
"With what?"
"Your speech. It was really moving" said Kimi
"Yeah it moved Kimi and Lil to tears. And Chuckie but I told him I wouldn't tell you" Kimi said nudging him in the ribs
"You know I got an idea" said Kimi
"Yeah what?"
"Well when we were younger and missed our real parents. Mom and Dad would get Chuckie and I to write them a letter. We'd tie it to a balloon and let it go. In a way we felt like they would read it. Maybe you should try that"
Phil smiled at Kimi "I may just do that. Thanks guys"
"Hey don't thank me it was Chazz and Kiras idea"
Hw laughed "I'll thank them then."
===== Downstairs ======
Chuckie was talking to Lucis younger sister when he saw Lil out the corner of his eye.
"Sorry excuse me" he said politely
He walked over to Lil and smiled at her. She smiled back and blushed a little.
"How you doing?"
"I'm fine, but seeing so many sad people. I feel a bit out of place"
"I know how you feel. Fancy a walk?"
"Yeah that'll be nice"
They both got up and went out of the front door. They walked a few blocks in silence before Lil spoke
"Do you think we should of left Phil?"
"He's with the others. Plus Lucis family seem to like him"
"Yeah they are really nice people. So how are you doing?"
"I'm cool. I'm more worried about Kimi"
"Why?"
"Since she found out Dad wasn't her biological father she hasn't been able to cope aswell at funerals"
"Wow I never knew that she was so sensitive over these things. I'm such a bad friend" She began crying
He hugged her "No your not. Your her best friend and you've always been there for her....and me"
She walked back and looked into his eyes. They sparkled with tears. She moved in slowly and kissed him. Neither of them were expecting it and when they finished they went in to denial. They looked away,
"......We should get back" said Chuckie
"Yeah we should"
They practically ran back to the house. For the rest of the day they didn't speak to each other. They were too embarassed about what had happened. It was about an hour later when the guys said there goodbyes and left the Osbournes home. Phil hadn't said anything on the ride home. He thought about Kimis advice.
"PHIL!"
"Huh?"
"Were home"
"Oh sorry thanks Chuck"
"See ya Phil. Lil" said Chuckie and the others
"See ya" said Phil
Lil totally ignored Chuckie and headed into her house
"Wow that was weird" said Dil
"Yeah Lil is always nice to Chuckie....unless" said Kimi looking at her brother as did the others.
"What?... Don't be crazy we didn't do anything. It was a funeral"
"Yeah ok we'll let it go for now" said Kimi as Tommy and Dil got out the van.
"I'll call you later ok babe" said Tommy kissing Kimi
"Ok see ya" she said smiling and closing the door
Chuckie started his car and drove home.
Kimi began singing "Chuckie and Lil, sitting in a tree..."
"Shut up!"
She laughed loudly and continued to sing "K-I-S-S-I-N-G"
Chuckie stopped the van and pushed his sister out the door and sped away.
"Aww Chuckie stop being such a baby!!!!" she shouted after his van, but he didn't stop "Fine" she said and turned around and walked back to Tommys "Bastard"
Tommy was sat infront of the TV when the doorbell rang. He jumpe up and opened it to see Kimi standing at the door
"You didn't sing the kissing song did you?"
"Well just a bit. He threw me out before I could finish"
He laughed as he let her in.
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Well that was her funeral. Phil said some very nice things didn't he. I apologise to all those who would of liked to got to know Luci better, but it's a bit late to change it now. To all my reviewers (Especially Princess Punky you like to review don't you :-D ) I'd like to say thanks, your reviews are what make me keep writing. I kept forgeting to add this at the end so sorry if you think its a bit late. Hope your enjoying please R/R
