RICHARD

Piano

422 words, first published story, may make another chapter:)
Hope I did alright! Let me know!

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Richard was puffing and blowing smoke from his bong, feeling the chills running down his spine as he laid back, exhaling the smoke into the air.

"Richard?", he heard a familiar voice call for him. He sprang up, confused and a bit excited, as that voice sounded awfully familiar.

"THOMAS??", Richard says as he jumps forward to embrace Thomas.

Thomas and Richard were best friends. Richard always had someone to talk to, making his life at the orphanage much less lonely. Whenever Richard was ridiculed or mocked, Thomas would always comfort him in the nights end.

"Oh boy! It's been too long since we've spoke! How have you been, Richie?", Thomas says as he holds Richard in a strong grip until letting go.

"Well, I've been taking Piano lessons. Wanna see a cool song I learned?", Richard asked, his face lighting up.

"Of course buddy! Where is this piano?"

"Right over here! Follow me!" Richard Springs up with Thomas behind him.

Richard sat down and was about to play his first note, until...

"AGH!"

Richard looks over. Thomas' toe was stuck under Richard's seat, his foot bleeding out as Thomas fell back.

"THOMAS!", Richard exclaims as he rushes to his friends side, a great feeling of panic and fear overcoming him.

He held Thomas's head up to his chest, checking the pulse in his neck.

"Richard...", Thomas speaks in a breathy manner.

"...yes?", Richard replies to his best friend.

"I... love you", Thomas tells Richard, letting out his final, cold, breath.

"No!" He said as his friend Thomas faded away, his lifeless husk being the only part left of him being held in Richard's arms. Tears began rolling down Richard's face, as his best friend, Thomas, who had been there for him all his life was now in the cold grasp of death. His guilt, too immense to bare, drove him to calling the police, confessing what he's done. Richard's sobs are almost incomprehensible, but yet the operator could hear him as if he was speaking clearly.

She listened to Richard's story, almost feeling the heartbreak through the phone. He explained how he took drugs, finally able to see his best friend for the first time, only to have his friends life flash before his eyes as he stunned his toe on the piano, so much that Thomas's toe was now lodged in his own foot, bleeding. The operator called some police men to take away Richard and send Thomas to the ER. Thomas never woke up, and died from blood loss.