I just sat there for a moment trying to wrap my head around what had just happened. Then I looked up at Gerard. His pale fingers were wrapped around the gun, his whole body was shaking violently, terror danced in his beautiful Hazel eyes.
"I killed my own brother." Gerard whispered, his voice cracking.
I slowly walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his shaking body.
"You had to Gee, it was for the best." I whispered in his ear.
"Dont touch me! I'm a monster, what if I killed you to?" He cried out, pushing me away.
"Gee don't say that, you know Mikey wouldn't want to become a zombie." I argued grabbing his hand.
"He was 15..." Gerard was now sobbing violently. I pulled him into my lap and held him while he cried.
"I know baby I know, you had no choice though." I whispered into his ear while softly rubbing his back. He continued to cry, so I began to sing. I'm not sure why, considering I was never a good singer and I preferred to play guitar, but I did. I kept my voice soft and gentle as I sang out the song.
"If I could be with you tonight,
I would sing you to sleep,
Never let them take the light behind your eyes,
One day I'll lose this fight,
As we fade in the dark,
Just remember you will always burn as bright."
As I finished I felt very stupid for singing that song to him. It had nothing to do with what was happening, I had written it for Gerard after I left.
Gerard had stopped crying and was now just nestled into my chest.
"That was beautiful Frankie, what's it called?" He asked me.
"The Light Behind Your Eyes, I wrote it for you." I told him glad he was no longer crying.
"I like it." Gee said "Hey, Frank?"
"Yes?" I said moving his hair out of his face.
"Will you help my bury him?" He asked in a whisper, his eyes watering again.
"Of course."
We waited for Bob to get home before we buried Mikey. Bob didn't cry in front of us, but I know he did alone. We buried Mikey under a dogwood tree in the backyard since it used to be his favorite place. Later that night I convinced Gerard to try and sleep, he cried for a long time before falling asleep. I sat there holding him tight, trying to make him better. I wasn't sure if he would ever get better though. I was listening to the battery powered radio play, I'm not sure why because there was never anything on there except for obvious things like the disease is getting worse. So as I sat there listening to the staticy radio play, my heart stopped when I heard a lady's voice callout a cheerful way,
"We did it! We have found a vaccine!"

Notes

There! I'm kind of running low on inspiration so that's all I got, sorry.

Never change.

#WOLFY#