A/N: Here comes the replies...

Hellfire - Hahaha, Killing Cye was away to progress the story. I could've spared him, but what fun would that be? One of my exes punched a car once, he didn't think it would do much, but wow. Those are pretty names... good news is that I shrunk my list.

Jen Lewis - Oh, but I did! And I felt bad about it.

weirdo4life - You must've caught the little hint. hehe.

Here we go guys.

The week after Cye's death is a blur to me. The autopsy report said death was due to brain swelling and a clot passing through his brain. I remember the four of us standing in the rain at his funeral, it was surreal. Someone so young, so full of caring, lying in front of us, motionless. The glue that had been pulling us together was gone now, and the pain was unbearable. I refused to believe it, I walked out of the funeral home after the service, I didn't want a part of this. I thought if I ignored it, then none of it was real. When I finally sat down in defeat, letting my grief wash over me, there was no one standing there to lecture me for being a bad friend. Walking out on someone that was trapped, laying there. But it was different that time. Cye wasn't coming back and I had to deal with it alone.

Sage took Cye's passing hard, just as hard as Kento, or any of us. He seemed to feel that it was his fault, Cye was coming to see him at the hospital. He was very stressed at that point and we began to see him regress. I knew then we couldn't beat whatever this thing was that was destroying his brain. I think Kento and Ryo picked up on it as well, we never talked about it, they just slowly became a permanent fixture in the house. We just passed the days talking or visiting places we had been before. Sage became very weak and confused, sometimes he didn't remember the places we were at all. Sometimes he didn't understand why Cye wasn't with us. On those days we told him Cye was busy, but he wished Sage the best. We couldn't bring ourselves to tell him what really happened.

He came to me one day said he wanted to be alone, just us and the sunset. He seemed urgent and unusually clear-headed. He was moving slower than usual, but sitting out there in the sun seemed to recharge him. We sat near the lake and he laid his head down on my shoulder and I leaned mine on his. I knew it was time to tell him everything, tell him how I felt about him. I knew it was the end and I was terrified.

The sky was a vibrant shade of blues and purples, and Sage took at deep breath when he saw it. "Isn't it beautiful?"

Rowen nodded and smiled. "I can see why you like it so much. We should watch the sunrise tomorrow, too, like you use to huh?"

Sage let out a small sound, a cross between a laugh and a sigh. "I don't think I will see any more of them."

Rowen tensed and looked down at the head resting on his shoulder, the golden hair almost grown out again and felt very cold. "Don't talk like that. There is so much we have to do still, and -"

"I'm tired, Ro." The blonde looked up at him for a moment. "Let's just watch the sunset together, please?"

"Sage, I need -"

"Shh. I understand." Sage put a finger to Rowen's lips, then entwined their hands together.

They sat like that as the sun set, until Rowen could hear the blonde's breathing become slow and even, he was asleep. He stayed that way a long time, watching the stars appear through the tears that clouded his sight, until he felt the other boy become heavy and breathe one last peaceful breath, then drop still.

"Sage?" The tears completely blurred his vision as he turned to hold the blonde next to him, but there was no response, he knew there wouldn't be. He sat there until the sun rose one final time.

He gave me that one final sunset, he could've been with any one, but he gave it to me. As I held him there, crying, all I could think about were the things I've never said.

One more chapter! I'll probably post it up today, actually.