Chapter 19 : Death comes for us all

He's dead, drake.

I keep playing the moment over and over in my head; we were talking, laughing, dancing... it just felt so right, so I...kissed him.

It was a simple kiss. A short kiss.

...He told me he loved me.

And then suddenly he was gone. Disappeared.

I don't know what happened.

I woke up later (two weeks later, I was told) in my bed at the church, to a sleeping Sheri.

She was in hysterics when she woke up, but she powered through and explained to me that there was an attack. A magical artifact that was akin to a bomb. It took out over a hundred people.

Drake was one of them.

He...protected me, and died in the process.

They already had the funeral.

He was dead.

And it was my fault.