Mourning End Part 1 Novels & Stories

"Why are you crying?" I looked up at a clean, youthful face and cried even harder. "My mom is in there, but I can't see her." The young Adrian froze for a moment, then burst out laughing. "What's there to cry about?" He clapped his hands, squatted down in front of me, his voice bright. "Get on." Later, I climbed into the coffin and clutched my mother's cold body, crying until I was hoarse. The sound of my sobs drew everyone's attention, and Adrian was beaten severely by his father. Even with his face bruised and swollen, he still flashed me a reckless smile.

Does he even understand it causes permanent emotional impairment? "I'd bet my license he still loves you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come up with something so convoluted. But he's too arrogant, thinking he can control everything as if it were some master plan. The day he finds out the truth, he's going to wish he were dead." I lowered my gaze, tracing the rim of my glass with my finger. Whether or not he regretted it no longer had anything to do with me. In seven days, everything about him would be wiped clean from my mind—beyond the reach of memory or emotion.

I wondered what he could’ve possibly done to end up killed like that—murdered and dumped on the roadside. Then the next shot made the remote actually fall from my hand. My blood turned to ice, and every hair on my body stood straight up. Nurse Morwen appeared on screen—eyes red and swollen, cheeks streaked with tears. I left the remote where it lay and scooted closer to the TV, praying I was seeing things. “I…I…my James is gone. I don’t know what to do now,” Morwen said, wiping fresh tears away. It looked like she was standing outside a hospital.

There was no sound from the other end of the line. Just as I assumed someone had dialed the wrong number and was about to hang up, a familiar yet distant voice finally spoke: "Is this… Elio…?" The voice was both familiar and like a distant memory, and I immediately realized it was Serena. "Serena?" I didn't expect Serena to suddenly call me. "Please don't hang up yet… I just want to say a few words to you before I die… "The doctors say I have cancer, Elio… It's terminal."

But in this moment, it felt impossible. “I’ll make it right,” I vowed softly, my fingers pressing the pendant deeper into the soil. “I swear I’ll make Rhys pay for what he’s done.” The sound of footsteps approached, and I looked up to see Helen, her face etched with grief. She placed a gentle hand on my shoulder, offering silent support. We didn’t need words; our shared pain was enough. The pack began to sing the mourning song, a tradition passed down through the generations. The haunting melody filled the air, weaving through the trees and settling like a heavy blanket over the burial site.

Mourning always ended in stages, as if grief had a schedule. I stayed until the last person left. Cake waited beside me the entire time. Enzo walked away first. No explanation. No destination spoken aloud. He simply left in a direction that made it clear he could not remain where we were. I watched him go and understood it without needing to follow. Some pain does not ask for witnesses. When the cemetery finally emptied, I remained standing for a moment longer. The ground beneath us looked too ordinary for what it now held. Cake stepped closer. “We should go home,” she said softly.

And she was gone! ***The End***

“Mmmmm—mummy” She croaks as I race to her side, I land on my knees beside her and I pull on all my power, pushing the wound closed I heal her, my power fills her up as she gasps for breath, but just as I thought she could breathe her body gives out and she collapses, her heart stops and her eyes lay open Abby screams, falling on her backside and crawling back away from her as she sobs shaking her head “Noooooo” Lou falls on the ground sobbing into her hands, shaking back and forth. Everyone just stands in shock, such a bittersweet moment, the moment we had all been waiting for was finally over but along with that goes the pain of losing someone we now considered family.

I miss him! The end.