Unbreakable

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You can’t understand the beginning until you reach the end, so here it is . . .

After all this time it comes down to this?

I never wanted this to happen.

Somehow I always knew it would.

“It’s okay.” His rasp is little more than a final breath. “I’m ready.”

I’m not. “You idiot. Why would you do this? There had to be another way.”

But even as I speak the words, I know . . .

This is the only way.

My forehead meets his.

His eyes lock on mine. “Time for you to go.”

I kiss his knuckles, bating my sobs as I force myself to rise. Now it has to end. Here. For good. So I do the only thing left to do.

I. Die.

What is that wretched odor? Am I dead? Because I smell dead or death or something close to it. I can’t open my eyes. Not yet. Opening my eyes makes it real. I just need a minute to collect myself. My thoughts. My memories . . .

Memories.

I squeeze my eyelids, rummaging my brain, digging and sorting. Compartmentalizing. Retrace your steps. That’s what the proverbial they say, isn’t it? That’s how to get back to what you’ve forgotten?

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