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12) Gone
I'm glad I had observed the patients in here when I came with Jake, because they are how I found my way to my grandfather's door.
I took a deep breath before I nudged the door open and stepped through.
The room was still. Silent.
My mother was a vampire, and I knew she could sit or stand for days on end, years on end, without moving in the slightest, but she petrified me now at how still she was.
I scrutinized her graceful hands wrapped around Grandpa Charlie's lifeless hand and her face locked onto his.
I edged my way closer and laid my hand resting on his forehead. I looked down to his eyes, closed and peaceful, and ducked my head to kiss his cheek. My breaths came faster and closer together. My eyes started stinging. I blinked tears away furiously but this only made them fall harder. Mom didn't move at all.
"Mom… Mommy is he…" I left the daunting query suspended in midair and bit back sobs.
Mom and I sat soundlessly for fourteen long minutes, my eyes darting between the clock and my grandfather's face.
"He's gone," she whispered so low I almost missed it.
Almost.
My breath jammed as I staggered backwards towards the door. The last image I glimpsed was my grandfathers absent face and my mother's shoulders shaking over his dull body before I ran away.
I waited until I was in the middle of the forest before I stopped. I waited until I was in the middle of the forest before I thought. I waited until I was in the middle of the forest before I tried to breathe.
I waited until I was in the middle of the forest before I grieved. I didn't even attempt to stop the tears that came this time. I didn't try at all.
Instead I folded myself into a ball and drowned myself.