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Scarlett blocks the doorway, sneering at Angie and her accomplice. “Hand me the fucking bottle,” she says, “and your phones if you want to walk out of here still looking pretty.”
Angie scrambles for her bag, but I can’t focus on her. On anything else.
I drop my gun on the bed. “Redix.” I shake him. “Wake up!” His shoulders, his cool flesh in my hands. His life is my home…
And it’s slipping through my fingers.
“Wake up!” I rub the valley I live in, his heart, my most cherished place.
He’s naked and too still, too void of breath.
“Wake up!” My fingers return to his neck, searching, hope dropping from my grasp. “Please.” I can’t find his pulse. “No. No. No. No.”
I can’t think. I can’t do this without him.
“Don’t leave me.” My lips press to his. No matter how long. No matter how far. He always came back to me. “Don’t leave me.”
He said he’d come back for me. I’ll wait, breathing every breath for him until he does.
“Don’t leave me again.”
From the moment we met…
His smiling lips crushed the candy cane I gave him. “What kind of name is Cade?”
“My first name is stupid, so I make my mama use my middle name—Cade.”
“Your name is ‘Stupid Cade’?”
“Funny.” I hit his arm. I liked him. “No, it’s ‘Magnolia,’ and I hate that name.”
“I like magnolias.” He hit my arm back. He liked me too. “They’re fun to climb.”
He sat beside me and didn’t leave my side. That’s when we became best friends. “Thanks for the candy.”
“You’re welcome.” He made me happy. “I got plenty to share.” I opened my Hello Kitty purse and gave him my heart, and he’s held it since. It only beats for him.
My best friend, his caring eyes, his big hands holding mine, he can’t leave.
I press my lips to his cool cheek, swearing, “You promised me. Candy. Bikes. Ice cream. Candles. Pizza. Love.” Tears, they stream over my lips brushing his. “You promised me infinity.”
He always took care of me…
“I don’t feel good.” I started my period. “I wanna throw up.” My head rested on his shoulder, and I wanted to stay with him forever.
His sweatshirt wrapped around my waist; his lips whispered in my hair. “I’ll take care of you, Candy Cade.” He held my hand and didn’t let go. He protected me. He sacrificed everything for me. Even himself. “It’s okay.”
And I held onto him. I cherished him.
I always will.
God, I’ll give up heaven for him. I will live in hell. Just for him to open his eyes.
“Please don’t do this.” His skin is sticky. With sweat. With sick. With everything killing him inside. “Please don’t leave me.”
But his eyes won’t open. His lips won’t smile. His mouth won’t say one more asshole joke. Or kiss me. Or call me “Candy Cade.” Or swear that he loves me.
“Don’t leave me.” I can’t feel anything else. “Redix, please, I love you.”
