Roy is found on the floor of the bathroom with slits in his upper left arm and a vibrant pool that burns with disgust.
His mother finds him shivering in a fitful sleep, and she holds back her vomit and fear so she can disinfect his arm and staunch the bleeding. He wakes to find her holding him and crying and asking with shudders, Why are you doing this to yourself?
And he realizes that his answer is unsatisfactory but even so he tells her about how he made a friend and fell in love only for him to die on him. He tells her about how he finds solace in the pain.
It's only when she begins to hug him does he realize the harm he's done to himself and those around him.
He looks at his bandaged arm and sees it as a symbol that marks the beginning of his own healing.
Roy returns to to the grave a year later and leaves a bouquet of flowers and speaks aloud to himself and the stone. "Gone, but never forgotten."
He turns and leaves, the wound finally healed.
Sorry about the inbox spam I just felt like uploading it all at once and was impatient about it.
Also I want to thank everyone involved in the betareading/proofreading/editing process and for listening to me complain about deadlines and rewrites of this.
Update 12/31/2015: Sorry I forgot to wish everyone else good luck i feel really bad now.