FROM: CLAIRE
I'm not sure how upset I'm allowed to be that you're gone… I barely knew you.
Still, as pathetic and lame as it sounds… you were probably the only person I could really trust, especially recently.
When I found out who you really were, it was the only good thing to happen to me since you saved my life in Texas. My uncle. It makes me smile just reading it.
I didn't have much of a purpose before you came; my reality basically consisted of school, boys, and the occasional re-growing of some limb or another. I didn't feel alive.
But the moment you stepped onto campus, my whole reality was turned upside down. There were other people out there like me! I wasn't alone anymore… because of you.
After that, I found my birth mother; I finally got some answers about where it is I came from; about why I am the way I am.
Now, I know my father, my grandmother, and, of course, my favorite uncle. I'm a part of something real… no lies or deception.
I guess with all that, all the good things… the universe was bound to serve up its usual dosage of terrible. Only, this is more than terrible. I can't count that times that I've died... but death doesn't come close to feeling as bad as this does.
When I saw you lying there, I felt everything start to fall apart again. It was unreal. You were the only thing that made me feel safe, and you're gone. You're gone.
It still hasn't really registered; maybe it never will. I just keep waiting for you to wake up and be okay, for all of this to be one bad memory.
You were supposed to be invincible.