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

I thought I taught

as he suddenly thought of his appearance. Raising his arm, he

if he saw me

hollow laugh escaped

who felt something grip his chest. Once again,

mustn't show him that I'm

not have been here, but to Ryan,

He was always here.

a couple of good minutes, Ryan lowered his head. He then made his way

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

But...

only one

'Where is he?'

him to spot his parents whom he had met

here

'Why?'

wondered while he

'Why isn't he here?'

the only one that was looking for

...How could they not?

speak first. He was supposed to be the one

why wasn't he

all people, he should've been the first

Why?

Why!!

Why!?

'D..does he not care?'

dream he had

think of us as just

it back when he was watching everything. In the first place, he didn't understand much of the content that was shown to

...It made no sense.

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

and treated everyone as though they

them or not. If they were in the way of his goals, they were nothing but a roadblock that needed to

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

He wasn't.

Never.

that was what

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

no, it

of the fact that he wasn't in the finest emotional state. No one could

the probability of that Ren being the Ren he knew, Ryan just couldn't stop overlapping the

no..they are not the same

only thing keeping him from going further down. He was

was Smallsnake's words that kept him from going down

"Keum."

Raising his head up, he found Kevin standing at the

"Why is he there?"

while he looked at Kevin. He barely knew

that some of you are uncomfortable

head, Kevin turned his wrist and checked

and it doesn't seem like Ren is here yet. Since we can't afford

Clank—!

soon as that happened, more than half of the audience turned to look in the direction of where the noise came from, and there they saw a ragged figure coming in

'Ren?'

thought as he spotted

notice his appearance

of his glaring black circles, pale face, crooked tie,

be rejected by him who slowly walked toward the

teeth, Ryan lowered his

deep sense of shame

me

be the saddest about his apparent death, but staring

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