"Bastian, I'll be fine," Mitchel said in his sweet french accent, "I promise, I'll be back before you know it. And the storm should blow over. I checked and the plane I'm riding is very safe. Je t'aime et tu vas me manquer... 'I love you and I'll miss you'."
Mitchel placed a short but sweet kiss on Sebastian's forehead. "I'll see you later, Bastian. I'll call when I'm there, okay?"
Sebastian nodded quietly, trying to hold back the tears that pricked behind his eyes. He didn't want to cry in front of Mitchel.
Mitchel tilted Sebastian's face up toward him gently. "Hey... Don't cry, okay? I'll be fine."
Sebastian nodded. "Je t'aime et tu vas me manquer..."
Mitchel smiled. "I love you, too... I'll miss you."
They shared a quick kiss and then Mitchel hurried off to catch his flight to Paris. But Sebastian couldn't shake the horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach.
Sebastian thought of that moment with tears in his eyes. That was the last time he would ever hear Mitchel's sweet voice again.
8:02, May 29th, 2012... Mitchel died in a plane crash due to a severe hurricane raging in the plane's course.
Sebastian screamed in sadness and frustration.
If Mitchel had only listened to him! Why didn't he! Mitchel was gone forever!
How could this happen to them?
Sebastian sunk to his knees, staring at his left hand, at the glowing silver band on his ring finger.
Sebastian shook his head and sobbed into his hands. Why? Was all he could think, W-why...?
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A week later, Sebastian Smythe stood at his lover's funeral, over his coffin, his death bed, and he stared at the beautiful face that was Mitchel.
He sang the sad and sweet words to his only love.
"I write this song in memory of
The wayward smile
The boy we won’t forget
The soul you took away from us
The river flows
The tears that we wept"
Tears fell as Sebastian's voice cracked.
"Missing you
Is all that needs to be said
More than blue
The words inside my head"
He quickly wiped away the streaking tears that were running down his face as he carried on the melody.
"And I know that you’re gone"
Sebastian was changing. His heart was softening even more than it was when Mitchel was alive.
"The cheeky smile
Of jokes and laughs
The memories of times
We crossed the line
The stepping stones
Across my mind
Washed away
We all now feel so blind"
Sebastian could feel the change, too. Mitchel's death made him realize how wrong he was back then, treating people like they were dirt, causing one person to almost die of suicide.
"Missing you
Is all that needs to be said
More than blue
The words inside my head"
He kept singing the song as he remembered everyone he'd almost drove to death. Kurt... Dave... they were just a few.
But Sebastian was changed now. He knew what he had to do. He had to make it up to them... In Memory of Mitchel...
"And I know that you’re gone..."
Silent tears fell down Sebastian's cheeks as he leaned down to leave a kiss on Mitchel's cold lips.
"Goodbye..."
Sebastian looked at him, barely breathing the words: "Je t'aime et tu vas me manquer..."
"I love you, and I'll miss you."
