41.
The watch is placed on my bedside table and I had completely forgotten about it. But somehow her voice from the other side awakened my senses. It’s not like her words were caring, but it snapped me into the real world.
The world where there is no Maxon. A world which still loves me, no matter what.
I grab the watch and stare at its broken dial for a long time before I jump up from the bed and push the door open.
She is there, staring in anticipation, and for the first time, I notice her eyes.
Deep hollows of sadness, deprived of love, faith and hope.
And somehow I can see they mirror my own.
I give her the watch and turn around to my room before Mark and her grab my hands.
“No, buddy. Six days is long enough,” Mark tells me and I collapse on the floor, exhausted.
I have to live on.