The Author's POV

Chapter 605

Pitter! Pitter!

The muffled sound of rain hitting against the window beside me, woke me up.

I groggily opened my eyes and glanced toward the window, where I was greeted by a gloomy scene. It was a dark and dreary sight, typical of any rainy day.

It perfectly synchronized with my mood.

[You have 37 missed calls]

When I finally had the opportunity to check my phone, I noticed several missed calls. They seemed to come from my parents, Amanda, Kevin, and the others. I ultimately didn't answer them back and just shut off my phone.

I wasn't in the mood to talk with anyone at the moment.

Everything felt like a dream to me at the moment. No, rather, a nightmare. One that I couldn't possibly escape from.

'What time is it?'

An unknown period of time passed while I lay on my bed just blankly staring at the ceiling of the room I was in.

Raising my hand and turning my wrist, I checked the time. I felt a sudden pang in my heart while I stared at the time. 16 : 39 P.M.

"...It's almost time, huh?"

I reluctantly got out of bed and stumbled toward the closet where I pulled out a set of black clothes. Grabbing onto the clothes, my hands shook.

It was almost time for Smallsnake's funeral to start.

A few days had passed since the incident, and those few days had been among the most difficult in my life. It was difficult to prepare a funeral for someone you had assumed would accompany you till the end and would always be around.

I...I just couldn't stomach it.

How?

Just where did things go wrong?

Why must things have turned out this way?

"What's this?"

Unknowingly, I felt something wet stream down from the side of my face.

"..Ah, shit."

I raised my hand and clenched my chest as a sharp, heartbreaking agony swept across my chest.

It hurt.

It really hurt.

I...I really didn't expect things to turn out this way. I...I really didn't.

***

Ryan looked toward the empty casket in the distance as he passed through the long aisle that was covered in a long red carpet and seemed to stretch for miles. It was probably shorter, but to him, it looked endless.

His footsteps felt heavy, and his eyes were rather blurry.

It still hadn't sunk into his mind.

...The fact that Smallsnake had left him.

The fatherly or brotherly figure he had been missing throughout his entire life was gone just like that.

"I..shouldn't be like this."

He mumbled to himself while he walked down the aisle.

'Fix your clothes, you look like a total mess like that.'

'Is that really how you want to look at my funeral?'

wipe your

a mess, I thought I

Ryan's face as he suddenly thought

me if

escaped

swept past Ryan who felt something grip his chest. Once again, he felt the corner of his eyes tear up,

mustn't show him that I'm

not have been here, but to Ryan,

He was always here.

casket for a couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then made his way to a seat

familiar figures. Angelica, who was currently disguised as a cat, Ava, Hein, Leopold, Kevin, Amanda, Emma...all of Ren's friends and people that were

But...

only

'Where is he?'

him to

was here apart from

'Why?'

wondered while he continuously

'Why isn't he here?'

for him. Practically, almost everyone

...How could they not?

was the one that was supposed to speak first. He was supposed to be the one guy

wasn't

all people, he should've been the

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

thinking about the dream he

really just think of us

was watching everything. In the first place, he didn't understand much of the content that

...It made no sense.

was one thing he managed to pick up from the flashbacks, was Ren's

as though they were

were in the way of his goals, they were

made Ryan understand that the dream was probably a fake. The Ren he knew wasn't like this at

He wasn't.

Never.

least that was what he thought

as time ticked, and everyone quietly sat down waiting for him to arrive,

no, no,

as a result of the fact

Ren he knew, Ryan just couldn't stop overlapping the

no..they are not the

the only thing keeping him from going further down. He was also the one that informed him that Ren wasn't

him from going down an even bigger

"Keum."

thoughts was a small cough. Raising his

"Why is he there?"

looked at Kevin. He barely knew

some of you are

his head, Kevin turned his wrist

currently running late, and it doesn't seem like Ren is here yet. Since we can't

Clank—!

Kevin began to speak, the doors slammed open abruptly. As soon as that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted him from the

wasn't the only one that notice his appearance as the

his glaring black circles, pale face, crooked tie, and wrinkled clothes,

to be rejected by him who slowly walked toward the altar. His steps were rather slow, yet,

his teeth, Ryan

of shame rise from

me to

Ren the hardest. He previously thought that he should've been the one who was supposed to be the saddest

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