Saying Goodbye

The skeleton of a 23 year old man lay in the bed alone, staring at the ceiling, ignoring the sound of the hospital room door clicking quietly shut. A heart monitor beeped steadily beside him, showing no pulsating green line, only a small blinking red light mocking him with each breath he took.
He shouldn’t be alive, she shouldn’t be begging for him to stay with her.
None of this should have ever happened.


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