Me: WARNING AGAIN!
Karson27: This is another really depressing one, also featuring a case of teen suicide.
Me: So you've been warned. Remember, this is clearly a bonus chapter. It was just an idea we tossed around for a little while but of course, we couldn't do that.
Karson27: So please enjoy. Sort of.
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She was gone. My entire world lain in a pine box and buried six feet under the ground. The day was brutally beautiful too and the breeze was nice and cool. Almost chilly. Exactly the kind of weather that she loved. I stood at the end of the freshly covered grave long after everyone had left. My entire body felt numb. I collapsed to my knees and started sobbing. No one was there to stop me or console me. I was tired of being told that it was okay.
"Why did you leave me?" I sobbed to her head stone. "Why? Please ... Comeback ... I still need you ..."
I laid there and sobbed for a long time, until the sun nearly went down before I finally forced myself to get up. I climbed into the limo that was waiting for me.
I made it home and went straight to my room and promptly took off my stuffy formal suit and put on loose sleeping pants. Everywhere around my room were traces of her. Memories. I could smell her, hear her giggling or calling me to bed for the night.
I hadn't been home in so long. I flopped into bed, pulling myself into a little ball. I didn't go to sleep though my body actually hurt from lack of sleep. Every time I shut my eyes, she was there. Sometimes she was grinning and happy and healthy and other times she was sickly and frail. I didn't know which was worse.
"Takeshi," came my mother's voice. It was shaking and rasping from crying. She loved Tailyr almost as much as I did. "There's someone here for you."
I grunted but didn't move. I didn't want to see anyone.
"Mori," came an oddly high female voice. It wasn't usually this high. It was a whole octave higher than normal.
I rolled over to see Karsyn, Tailyr's best friend. Her brown hair was still done from the funeral but she'd changed from her funeral dress to blue jeans, a Three days Grace tee shirt, and a K & T Angels jacket. She had her hands behind her back. I stood quickly and walked over to her. Her dark eyes were broken, puffy and red from crying. Who knew exactly how long she'd been sobbing.
"Karsyn," I said slowly wondering what could bring her to my house. I knew she had said that she and Marx were going to go through the stuff Tailyr had at the headmaster's house. I'd been invited to help but I refused. I'd want to keep everything she'd ever touched.
"I found something," she said her voice cracking. She brought her hands around, gripping a familiar object in her hands. "It was Tailyr's and it meant a lot to her and, um, I thought you might like to have it."
I took it from her like it was the most precious thing in the entire world. It was Tailyr's brown teddy bear. She loved that thing and brought it almost everywhere with her. It was soft and fuzzy with shiny black eyes and a big red bow.
Tears sprang up in my eyes and a lump formed in my throat. I didn't even know how I could cry anymore. I felt all cried out. My legs turned to jello and I hit my knees, sobbing. Karsyn got on her knees in front of me and hugged me tight. Sobbing too.
I had the most empty feeling, like someone had punched a hole through my chest. Nothing was okay and nothing would ever be okay again. Not until I could see Tailyr again. I couldn't live without her.
How could life be so cruel?
- - - -
"Why is Mori-sempai carrying around a teddy bear?" a guest asked.
"Yeah, he's definitely not the Lolita type," another whispered back.
"Didn't you guys know that it belonged to Tailyr-sempai?" a third whispered back. "He misses her so much. He's not even hosting anymore."
"That's so sad," the first cooed looking sorrowfully at the big senior who was clinging to the stuffed bear like it was his last lifeline. The other two just nodded.
- - - -
-AN ENTRY FROM KYOYA OOTORI'S LAPTOP TITLED TAKESHI AND TAILYR-
Three weeks. That's how long Takeshi Morinozuka lived without his future wife, American Tailyr Mitchell. He was in a spiraling depression and seemed to waste away before our very eyes.
On the fifteenth day, a Tuesday, after Tailyr passes away from chronic pneumonia, Mori-sempai didn't show up for school. As this had become a regular occurrence, we tried to brush it off as more mourning time. At ten oh five a.m. the Host Club - including Mori-sempai's best friend and cousin, Mitskuni Honinozuka -, Satoshi Morinozuka, and Yasuchika Honinozuka were called from classes and escorted to the Headmaster's office.
Fifteen days. Six hours. Twenty - three minutes and forty - seven seconds. At this time the group was informed that Takeshi Morinozuka had ended his life by ingesting a whole bottle of sleeping pills left by his deceased girlfriend.
He was found by a maid, clutching her teddy bear, which Tailyr's best friend, Karsyn Campbell, had given to him after Tailyr's funeral. He also had the engagement ring that he had planned on giving to Tailyr once she was released from the hospital. Three days later, his funeral was held.
Two weeks after the second burial of a Host Club member, the Ouran High Host Club held a party in their honor. The club wore black with two red ribbons tied to their right arms, the couple's favorite color. In the front of the room was a tribute table. In the middle was an eight by seven of the happy couple along with other items of importance and pictures.
Tailyr's teddy bear and her skillet tee shirt. Mori-sempai's Kendo uniform and the ring he'd bought.
-The Funeral – Kyoya's P. O. V.-
"Hey, Karsyn," I said walking up to her slowly.
"Kyoya," she said, not really looking at me.
"How are you holding up?" I hadn't even saw her cry. She would walk around and comfort people, like Marx and Lily. She held Honey's hand through the whole thing and hugged him a lot but I never saw one tear from her. It was worrying me a little.
Karsyn looked at me. "Y-Yeah. I'm... I'm okay."
I frowned at her and hugged her. "Don't lie. I know how much Tailyr meant to you," I told her. "If you need me you know where I am. I'll be there whenever you call."
"I-I need to go check on Marx," she said, darting away from me as fast as she could. I didn't even get to object.
"Was that Karsyn?" a slightly familiar boy asked. I knew I'd seen his face before but I wasn't sure where. He was clearly American though.
"Yes. Who are you?" I asked.
"Old friend," he said passively. "She hasn't cried has she?"
"No."
"I knew when her mom called that it was bad I didn't think it was this bad.," he said, seemingly thinking out loud. "I bet she's going around taking care of herself and not even worrying about herself in the least."
"Yes," I finally interjected. He seemed to know a lot about my former girlfriend.
"Figures. It was nice talking to you," he said, walking toward Karsyn without another word to me.
"I see you've met Jonathan." Tamaki said coming up beside me.
"Who is he?"
"Jonathan Harker, Johnny, Karsyn's other best friend," he informed me. "We met him in passing when we went to the mall for the first time, remember?"
I didn't really recall him but I nodded anyway, just to avoid one of Tamaki's over dramatized stories.
All I wanted was for Karsyn to let her feelings out and cry. I was prepared to comfort her with my arms wide open, I got my wish but instead of me comforting it was another guy, who was holding her and whispering it would be okay. But that was fine … on a basic level.
"Jealous, Kyoya?" Tamaki asked, tilting his head.
I shifted my glasses up on my nose. "N-No. Of course not. As long as she's letting her feelings out and not bottling everything up ... that's all I care about."
Tamaki sighed. "You know that was all that Tailyr sempai wished for," he said. "She wanted you and Karsyn to make up. She told me that often. She was always telling me how much she wished for you guys to make up again. To be happy together."
I knew that probably wasn't going to happen. Karsyn was going to go back to America and the chances of us actually even speaking again was slim. She was just be another friend on Facebook. We'd probably never talk. Tailyr-sempai's wish would never come true.
But at least she and Mori-sempai were together again.
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