My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter 23

[[The Final Goodbye]]

A week had passed. One long, painful week. Kerri was out of the hospital and had to stay on crutches for six weeks but other then that, she's perfectly fine, physically. I was in the room when Andy told her about Wilson. She cried, I cried, we all cried, so it's no wonder that by now, I had ran out of tears and all that was left was the aching pain in my chest.

During this past week, everyone's been nice to me. I mean everyone. Matt's always saying sorry and how wrong he was and he regretted it as soon as he said it. I kept him waiting a bit but I finally forgave him. I could see how much it hurt him but I wouldn't forget what he said or how he acted. We were slowly getting beginning to speak again.

Kat and Tina have tried talking to me but knew when to give me my distance. They let me know that they were stupid and sorry and that they are here for me. I never spoke back, I couldn't. Zac...He's said sorry a few times but whenever he went to say something else, he changed his mind and walked away.

Olivia. That's a whole different story. She came crying to me the next day, begging for forgivness. She didn't realise how much it had effected me and she's realised her mistakes and blah blah, you get the picture. You could say I'm on neutral terms with her. I haven't fully forgiven her but I wasn't about to make her suffer like she had done to me.

I had cried all night when I finally broke down and Andy hadn't left my side. Both him and Kerri have been staying with me since that night, they're too worried to leave me on my own. I know what I promised Wilson but I just needed some time to get over his death before I can start moving on.

I planned to do this after his funeral today. I had to say my final goodbye before I can let that part of me go. I wasn't letting him go, I was just living by his words. Today was going to be hard but I had a constant reminder that I wasn't going through this alone.

I stared at my reflection in the mirror, startled at the strange girl who was looking back at me. My eyes had taken the red tint to them along with the puffyness. My skin was tear stained and blotchy and I hid it as much as I could with make-up. My lips were chapped from where I've been biting them and the paleness in my face was scary.

Yeah, I looked like a walking corpse. I left my hair down so it covered some of my bad looks. I ran my hands down the short tight yet elegant black dress and closed my eyes wishing that this past week had just been a bad dream.

I opened my eyes disappointed. I sighed heavily and shook my head. Suck it up, this is for Wilson. I turned my head at the sound of knocking on my door.

"Sophie." Kerri stepped inside my room. She was wearing a black short puffy dress with a hot pink belt below her chest. Her eyes were sad and she gave me a small smile. "You ready for this?" She said holding out her hand.

"I'll never be ready for this." I said taking her hand. She gave me an understanding smile as she lead me out of the room to were Andy was standing. He hugged me and then put me at arms length looking at me. "I'm fine." I said tring to reassure him.

"Ok, come on then." He said grabbing both mine and Kerri's hand. I took in a deep breath as I attempted to prepare my self.

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The church was beautiful. It was small and white and it looked like something out of a fairytale with all the snow around.

"It's beautiful." Kerri said my thoughts.

"Yeah, Wilson's mum picked it out." I said still looking through the window as the car pulled up in front of the church. Here goes nothing. I opened the door and started walking up to the double doors when I felt Andy's and Kerri's present behind me.