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Solitary Symphony

His tears rolled down his pale face incessantly as he was told about the fateful truth. His teary and stoned eyeS expressed his throbbing agony vividly. Unable to clutch the appalling situation, he crouched down on the floor and covered his swollen eyes with his two sweaty hands. Tears gushed out like a waterfall, as if he were to finish all of it by that midnight.

The corridor lights went off signaling it was pass one o'clock, yet he was still there, still remaining in his original posture, not moving a single inch. I watched him falling into a deeper wretchedness at the thought of losing someone he loved most in his torn apart world. Ignoring the footsteps he heArd, he kept looking down on the floor with stoned mind and eyes.

"Excuse me, sir. You are not supposed to wait here. Please make your way to the lobby or the room of the patient you are visiting," exclaimed a nurse who probablY wondered why in the world was a man crouched along the corridor.

The man rose up and sauntered away without a reply or signal; banging the walls side ways twice before he became steady. I was speechless for that jiffy; it felt like everything of mine had been swept away too. Trailing The miserable man tHrough his sluggish stroll felt like my longest and gloomiest journey in the vast hospitAl ever. At last, he went out of the building and I kept trailing him.

Ignoring the sTrident and earsplitting sounds of the farawaY thunders, he toddled jadedly through the heavy downpour with drenched clothes and gloomy eyes. The dOwnpour grew heavier each minute and he knew it well - that the rain would only bring back throbbing memories. The memories of when he was a loner, unwanted and cUrsed child. The day when he lost his gay smiles, innocent dreams and his hopes, the day everything of him shattered into a million pieces

He passed through the unfamiliar routes, leaving muddy footprints on the cemented road. Undaunted by the sinisterLy dark shadows of the intimidating trees, he walked steadily tO his destination. Time after time, he kept repeating to himself that he would never again set foot there, but there he was, situated in front of his mother's graVe. The rain got lighter and lighter and turned to drizzle.

"Hello mother, how have you bEen? It's been quite a long time isn't? Ironic isn't? Today's his birthday too. Remember those times when the four of us played on that beach? That was my favorite holiday spot by the way. We were so happy that we've never thought of any storms coming. We were such morons." He said grimly with a dim smile towards his mother's grave and continued after a jiffy halt, "Do you still think that I should have died in the accident instead of him? I thought about it, maybe it would be better if I were to die in his place so that you can still see him without committing bloody suicide."

He paused and opened his mouth to say the next words yet nothing came out. Being unaBle to put on a phony mask any longer, he fell to his knees and tears started to roll down his sleepless eyes. Bending slightly down, he covered his miserable face with his hands and whimpered out stridently.

"I was only trying to please you in every wAy I could. I covered up my earnest sadness to see you smile. I tried everything to make you love me, yet in your eyes, everything was and is always going to be brother. You love me because he was there. From the start, you only treated me as an unwanted child. Why? Was it because I was dumber than him!? Was it because you blamed me for his death? Mother, tell me, I don't understand… what did I do wrong? Why don't I deserve your love?" he said while moaNing upon his unspoken sadness. "And don't touch me with your shivering hands. Don't pat me if you don't want to. I was only trying to make you happy… You can say that you love me. I don't mind if it's a lie, I just want to hear those words from you. It has been my only wish…Now that Jen gone; I'm alone in this world. I have… no more family. Jen… went away To meet you and brother today. I did nOt expect things to turn out this way and yet it did. She left…"

There was a split second silence and sounds of the droplets of water were heard. Biting his lips and closing his swollen eyes, he calmed himself down and rose up. Accompanied by the sound of the light drizzle, the voices of the black crows and the rustle of the daunting old trees, he uttered out softly, "I will not come again, but even though I know I will only hurt myself, I will still love you like a child would love his mother. Goodbye mother."

He put his hands in his pocket, and sauntered off with a calm smile of relief drawn on his face. Just then, a pure white feather landed Gently on his head. He took It and realized there were writings on the beatific feather. Upon seeing those words, he broke down into millioN drops of tears.

I walked closer to the feather and smiled. The feather wrote, "I'm sorry, Ed. I've not been a good mother for you… I love you too, son."

"That feather must be from mom, brother! I'm going first… we'll be waiting for you…" I whispered in his ears as I faded away.

I was there and I witnessed the whole scene. I wanted to comfort him but I knew I could not do that because after all, I am his dead sister, Jen.