Although my leg was sprained the adrenaline in my body forced me to drop my crutches and leap forward to grab his hand. I dived straight onto the ground my body screaming in pain as it bruised in the dirt but his body was already plummeting straight down. A scream left my mouth and I covered my face. I couldn't watch him die.

Cole's body splashed into the water and my heart sunk. The probability of him hitting a rock or the current pushing him away was greater than him surviving. This was it he was finally out of my life, everyone's life. I should have been parading-throwing confetti around, glad that some pain in my life was gone but I wasn't, I couldn't stomach the thought of Cole Braxton disappearing of the face of this earth permanently.

I never got to find out why he did what he did and I never got to find out how his family knew some much about my own. I never got to breakdown over the fact that my parents were still alive and genuinely didn't want me, everything had just happened too fast.

My real name was Sky Aurelio for Christ sakes who the hell was that. I've been a Zedler all my life and it feels like I don't even know myself. Sure my family doesn't make me who I am as a person but I felt utterly lost.

I guess I wasn't the only one lost. I had no idea what ran through his mind as he jumped. What drove him to the extent that he had to take his life to have some relief. Maybe I judged him too hard and maybe in another world I could have saved him.

Screw this, screw another world I had to try and save him right now. I picked myself up with my crutches and wobbled down the side of the river. The rocky terrain made it immensely difficult to walk with crutches but I maneuvered over the narrow pathway clutching onto the wall of dirt like my life depended on it, which it did.

I reached to the bottom and it had gotten chillier. The wind gushed in harmony with the cascading water, my teeth chattered but I pushed myself to move on. I scanned the water looking for any sign of life but I couldn't get past the blended colors of blue and white shooting past me.

"Cole!" I screamed over the gushing of water in a lame attempt to scout his location.

I started to panic when I saw no signs, the dark water seemed to engulf your sense of sight making it difficult to locate anything else. I didn't know why I thought I could do this. If only I had gotten to him sooner this wouldn't have happened. Gosh I was so stupid and this will always haunt me, Cole Braxton's death will be on my conscience and I couldn't live with it.

My breathing started to fasten and I could feel the oxygen being lost from my brain. My eyes stung with tears and my knees buckled. He was actually gone and I couldn't stop him. I didn't care that he was awful to me in this moment he was still a human. Cole had his whole life ahead of him but he probably pulled his last breath minutes ago when he hit the water.

If you told me last year that I would be crying when Cole Braxton died I would have told you that you belong in an asylum but here I am. I still hadn't liked him as a person but to watch a person take his own life in front of your eyes was something else.

He didn't deserve to die, whatever had pushed him over the edge should have been dealt in a less impulsive way. Every problem has a remedy to it, it's not as easy as I put it but you should never give up on life no matter how bad the circumstance.

Common sense kicked in and I had to pull myself together. Authorities and his family needed to be informed. Shakily I dialed the emergency hotline number.

"Emergency hotline, how can I help you."

"S-Send help down by the river opposite Lakeview Hospital, a guy jumped and his body needs to be found." My stomach lurched as the words left my mouth making his death official in my books. Sobs escaped my lips as I cut the call.

The emotion of today finally let loose and I didn't only cry over his death but also over my abandonment and my current lifestyle. I was so messed up it wasn't even funny.

I failed to save him. I failed.

Please don't kill me (0_0) short chapter needed here but oh my god what did I just write I'm sobbing you guys. I don't like it when I put my characters through so much.

Me:(continues to put characters through more shit)

For everyone that has stuck with me till this far, I love you. Reads have dropped drastically but oh well I'm writing for me.

Boy these last couple chapters have been lacking humor should it still even be in this genre (0_0) anyways I'm off for now!

Much love ❤️