![]() ![]() Well, at least she wasn’t angry at him anymore. He did hear that the family was looking to move somewhere else after their daughter goes back to college.Īubrey dragged Sunny down the street, set on a destination. Yes, the resemblance was uncanny but Sunny Suzuki was dead. But something about that boy was familiar. He was certain they weren’t using the church to make out or anything like that. Too focused on the feeling of his hand held by hers.įather Miller watched the temperamental young girl and young boy leave. Sunny didn’t spare the man a glance as they left the building. She glared at him for a moment before grabbing Sunny’s hand and dragging him away. “While I certainly understand worship can be done any time of day, what are you and your friend doing here at 7 on a Saturday morning Aubrey?” “Tomorrow’s sermon,” he muttered, “that sermon will be different. That everyone should love.īefore he could comment, the door to the church opened up and the preacher walked in. Just because this version of Aubrey had to deal with his death right after Mari’s, she didn’t understand it was her, not him, that everyone loved. “After your, after your suicide, none of us were friends anymore.” Basil still is!” Around here she started to lose anger, instead replaced by an undercurrent of sadness. “And I can tell you right now none of us were the same ever again! So do you think your family, Kel, Hero and Basil just moved on? No! We were all broken by it for the longest time. “I’m still grieving after 4 years! Does that sound like I don’t care?” She spat that last part out. “Do you have any idea how much your death hurt us Sunny!” She yelled. He remembered a distant voice rom Headspace, “ It was a moving attack!” She slammed her head into his, knocking him almost out of the pew. “Hey it’s cool, I can’t imagine you caring so much that I was gone.”Īubrey flinched before she started shaking with rage. Ignoring the first part she said, “You? Get into a fight? I can’t imagine you getting-” her gaze fell on his eyepatch and fell silent. But yeah I was here, like, last week fighting someone.”Īubrey blinked. Don’t you remember? I know you were here a few times during the holidays.” “I’m not even sure where here is,” Sunny signed.Īubrey gave him an odd look. The two sat in the pews, feeling the sun’s rays warm them up as it rose, Aubrey finally said, “I just can’t believe you’re here.” Aubrey would open her mouth to talk multiple times but never followed through, and Sunny just patiently waited for what she would say. While inside the church and drying off (using an entire roll of paper towels from the men’s room) Sunny and Aubrey fell into a comfortable silence. Aubrey leaned her head against Sunny briefly, and he could’ve sworn he heard her say, “God, I’ve missed you.” Maneuvering through the gravestones Sunny felt a bit lighter. Giving Sunny a side hug, Aubrey started pulling him towards the church. “Can’t believe rhinos these days have switchblades.”Īnd finally his deadpan delivery reaped benefits as Aubrey’s shoulders shook until repressed laughter bubbled forth. “Yep, he feinted to the left and got me in the right when I was least expecting it.” Sunny considered his answer for a moment. She flinched in horror at the wound and let the eyepatch fall back down. “Holy shit, is that an eyepatch? Did you lose your eye?” Before he could stop her she reached up and lifted it up. Her gaze fell on his face and her eyes widened in shock. “I don’t know about me dying, all I know is I woke up in the pond back that way,” he signed. The nail bat was behind him, but she still could hit like a truck. “Sunny I swear if you were alive this whole time I’m going to kill you.” “That sounds about right.” Suddenly a flash of anger overtook her features. But I’ve been growing.”Īubrey gave him an odd look. Have you been growing up in the afterlife or something?” She asked. Now with enough sunlight she looked him over. By letting go, Sunny meant from the hug, she now had a hand on his shoulder. She gave him one last squeeze before letting go. “I was going to ask you the same thing.”Īubrey sniffed, and reigned the tears back in. They’ve been hugging so long Sunny saw his namesake peak over the horizon. Her question jostled Sunny out of his detached state. ![]()
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