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The Night Your Friend Died
<p>The night your friend dies would be like any other night. You would be watching <em>Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves </em>on your laptop in your friend's room. You'll be calm and happy, envisioning a romance like that for yourself.</p><p>Your friend would burst into her room in broken sobs and tears running down her face. You'll be shocked, cause you've never seen her cry. You'll ask what's wrong and make jokes about it. She had to be joking or something.</p><p>She would yell it at you like an attack, she'll yell "Nelson is dead" and those words would haunt you for the rest of your life.</p><p>You'll deny it. It's impossible, you spoke to him last week. He was elusive as always, but he wasn't sick. He was sad, yes. But he wasn't dying. He was strong and he had his whole life before him.</p><p>Every memory would flash in your mind's eyes: You holding his hands, walking him to his hall, listening to him sing for you, sitting next to him.</p><p>You'll eventually break down, the weight would be too much. You'll call his best friend. You've never actually spoken to him before, but you'll call him, and you'll beg, you'd want him to lie to you, to take the weight away and make you feel better even when you know the truth.</p><p>You'll lie on your own bed by midnight, cried out and exhausted. Cursing yourself for not truly telling him that you loved him, for never kissing him, for never letting it go past friendship and never taking that step.</p><p>You'll feel like talking to someone, but as you scroll through your contacts you'll realise it's only him you want to speak to.</p><p>A few years after the night your friend died, you'll be sitting on your bed on a Wednesday night after missing church. You'll be lost because you don't have any completed work to submit to your page, but you'll remember him, and you'll pick your phone.</p><p>And you'll try to remember him. </p>
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