Depression Part 2

    I closed my eyes momentarily. "I've been better." I admitted. I patted the space next to me for her to sit down. She did. "We're in the same boat, aren't we?" I asked her. Emma nodded.

    "We both loved him." She said quietly. I wrapped my arms around her, bringing her into a hug as tears formed in the corners of my eyes.

    "Yeah, we did." I breathed. Now my voice was shaking. I felt her arms wrap around me tightly, just as my first tear fell. "We'll make it through it Emma. We will."

    "I haven't been to school since it happened." She said. I looked at her. "I don't want their sympathy." I nodded in understanding.

    She turned her head to look into my eyes. Her big chocolate brown eyes were glossed over with fresh tears. It was then that I saw my Jack. That is, before he dyed his hair. If her eyes were blue, I'd be bawling. They looked so much alike. Emma reached up and wiped a stray tear from my eyes. I sighed and flopped down on the bed. Emma did the same. We laid there for a while, before she started to sing quietly.

    "We'll do it all.

Everything.

On our own." 

    Her voice was still shaking as she sang. She reminded me so much of Jack. They would both sing if they were really sad or depressed or lonely.

    "We don't need.

Anything.

Or anyone."

    She looked over at me.

    "If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and, just forget the world?"

    I looked up at the ceiling. I found myself singing along.

    "I don't quite know,

How to say

How I feel.

    "Those three words,

Are said too much.

They're not enough.

    "If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and just forget the world."

    We both looked at each other with tears streaming down our cheeks. Yet we didn't care anymore. We started to sing together.

    "Forget what we're told,

Before we get too old.

Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

    "Let's waste time,

Chasing cars,

Around our heads."

    I could barely speak anymore. But then again, neither could she. Emma reached over and hugged me again. I sang barely above a whisper into her ear shakily.

    "I need your grace,

To remind me,

To find my own."

    She continued the song into my ear. I didn't know how she did that since her voice was breaking.

    "If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

    "Forget what you're told,

Before you get too old,

Show me a garden that's bursting into life." I sang to her.

    Together, we sang the last of the sad song.

    "If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

    We held each other tightly, both crying like babies. Though, to be honest, we had the right too. I had lost my boyfriend, but... she lost her brother. 

    Something moved outside the window. It was a bird that was squawking at nothing. Just making a lot of noise.