Epilogue
"She's gone." He said softly. Catherine's lifeless body was still in his protective arm. Caleb slowly inched towards him. Tyler froze. Pouge turned and went on his bike driving aimlessly into the dark night. They lost her. Forever.
"She lived her life with lack of family." Reid cringed as Caleb spoke. She had him and the others. She just did not have the privilege of being with Caleb and Evelyn. "She pulled through her sickness alone. She…" Caleb continued as Reid stood up. Reid looked at him with much disgust and walked out of the church.
"Reid." Tyler called out to him. "Don't listen him. It's what we know that matters. Not what people want to hear. She was my sister too." Tyler said.
"Then, go in there and listen to his lies." Reid said angrily. Tyler would say anything to make everything better. "Tell me why are you and Pouge are not in there listening to all his crap. Because it's bull. Pure bull."
The watch on his arm shows it is 3 in the morning. He could not sleep. Quietly he crept out and walked aimlessly. His legs stopped when he felt the familiar place. Place that she would always live with him. at the edge of the cliff. Tyler, Catherine and him.
"Why do you have to love me? Why do you have to change me?" He demanded to the winds. Her scent, the way she feel in his arms is still alive inside him. "Why do you have to tell me you love me?" He said a little softer.
"There is never a reason, love. Love is reason enough." A voice from the wind spoke to him. "I'll always live inside you, love. Be strong. You are stronger than you know."
"I'm who I am because of you. You made me strong. You made me weak. Take me with you, love." He pleaded reaching for the nothingness of the night. A soft touch touched the bare of his palm. He looked down and a small girl smiled up at him. A girl that looks so much like Catherine when she was sent away. Same soft look, same clothes, same smell. The little girl grew in front of his eyes to the Catherine he knew and love.
"I'll wait for you. I promise you that. I'll never leave you again now. I'll always be in your heart." She said and touched his chest and then wind blew her away.
Reid sat quietly on the grass where no one else were. Graduation was over, Catherine's gone. He stared down to the single white rose in his hand. Then stared at the diploma in his other hand. It was all for her. She wanted this for him. For her brothers.
He is changed into a man when she left in his arm. No more careless, joyful Reid. He is in his own world. Graduating with honors. He never dreamt about it. He never cared. She made him care.
Tyler and Pouge watch him from a far. Caleb was nowhere to be seen. Reid walk slowly to the cliff again and there the four of them met. "A rose for you love. Rest in peace." He said quietly as he put the rose at the edge of the cliff and the wind took it away.
"Be strong." He heard in the winds. He wiped his last sad tears for her and moved on to his friends. Tyler looks at him.
"I'm fine, Ty." He said smiling a little to Tyler and Pouge. "Caleb." He said. He has not even spoke to Caleb since the incident at the church.
"She would want us to stay as brothers." Pouge spoke. Tyler gazed over the cliff.
"As one family." Tyler finished.
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