"I'll love you 'til your last breath, to the last drop, past death. 'Til forever ends and that's never. And I won't stop loving you ever."
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HERBERT "HUE" WRIGHT.
DEATH. Something that is inevitable but we fear it anyway. Something that is destined but we don't wish for it in our wildest dreams. The one thing in life that is guaranteed, whether you're ready or not. We like to pretend like it doesn't exist then we're shocked when it comes about. Something that we'll never understand but perhaps, it's not for us to ever understand.
It was three months later. It was Hue and Amir's first time seeing each other since the altercation between her and Rylie. "Okay but did you really have to hit her though?"
"She called me out my name twice. I should've beat her head into the pavement. I'll hit the June bug challenge on that bitch grave."
"Chill out. That's still my child's mother, shawty."
Amir laughed and waved him off.
Twenty minutes later, Hue sat in his brand new twenty-twenty one Scat Pack, Widebody Charger and stared at a smiling Amir as she rambled on. His heart was sitting in his stomach but he didn't want to scare her. Something had a bad taste in his mouth. His intuition was never wrong and he knew that something was going to happen. "Can you believe that I'm a doctor? The nappy headed girl from the slums who literally had nothing and no one?"
"Yeah I can actually. You always said you'd be one. Anyone would've been dumb as fuck to doubt you." And he meant his words.
Amir has always been a go getter. When she set her sights on something, she was sure to come out with the win. Amir sighed deeply while looking at the sky through the window shield. "You know I thought you died."
"I'm a legend. I could never die." Hue said smartly making her crack a small smile.
"Why'd you leave me?"
"I blamed you for a lot of shit that went wrong when we were younger. The longer I stayed around you, the more you started to realize that I was blaming you for stuff. It was holding you back. You were so scared to disappoint me. You deserved better. I had to learn that none of that shit was your fault. And I hoped you learned too."
Hue use blame her for Juni's death. For him getting arrested time after time. For him never knowing what love really was. For anything that ever went wrong in his life and who was better to blame than the person who was there every time that something went wrong?
"Even though you told me that I made it all better? I knew you blamed me. I just knew. You'd let it slip out in the slightest ways when we argued then backtrack. You should've told me, not just leave me out of no where. I was so broken those first two years. I felt like I was dying more and more each day then I got comfortable with the idea that maybe you had reached your demise. It kept me at bay."
"Cause you would've rather me been dead then just living another life without you?"
"Cause I would've rather been dead than to live life without you, knowing that you're still out there somewhere, just happy without me." Amir mumbled the last part feeling tears stinging her eyes.
"Amir I-" Hue never got another word in. Neither one of them knowing that this would be their last time talking. Amir not knowing that Hue would go on thinking that she actually hated him when in fact she still loved him. More than anything. She looked into his eyes and remembered every good time that they had together. Everything that he just threw away. She remembered her hurt.
"You're sorry? You know what? I thought I was better. Just being with you but you know what? You can go to hell Herbert. You're selfish and I hate you. I want nothing to do with you. I wish you were dead then I could've continued to live my life unhinged! I was almost happy! You selfishly came and took that from me. Just like you took everything else. I'm sorry also. Sorry that I won't be here with you anymore. I never want to see you again."
Amir not knowing that there's actual power in the tongue. She wouldn't be here with Hue anymore. He'd be here with a broken heart. The last of his friends... gone in the blink of an eye.
That was last thing he could remember the love of his life's voice say before he got a call at 2am saying that she got into a car accident and at 4:36am when the doctors told him that they did everything that they could he knew that shit was never going to be the same.
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"Herbert? Herbert?" He heard a voice say taking him out of his thoughts.
"Huh?" He said looking up, realizing that everyone was staring at him.
"I asked could you please introduce yourself to the group and tell us the reason that you are here." The woman repeated.
