(Rose's Pov)
A month has passed as I sit here watching my parents grieve. I watch my mother getting weaker and my father crying in secret, so my mother doesn't know but I can hear both of their painful cries. They both blame themselves for Asure leaving. When they had gone up to take soup to Asure the shock that awaited them was too great
_____1Month ago_____
Mother dropped the tray of food as father passed her and went to the open window, he caught sight of a paper on the desk. When he picked it up off the desk and started to read it his face lost all color. I looked over his arm to read it as well.
" Dear Strangers,
I don't know how you know my name and I don't care I don't know you and I don't love you if you look for me, I will keep leaving so just go on with your pathetic lives or don't it's not my problem I hate liars and I don't want to be a part of this shitty family.
Fuck you,
Asure."
My breath caught in my throat. "How could you do this to them?" I screamed as I watch the only people who ever give me warmth and love shatter in an irreparable way. I reached out to my father to hug him, and I passed right through him. I crumbled to the floor in misery when I realized I couldn't comfort him as he fell apart after reading the note. Hearing shuffling noises to my right I knew it was mother coming over to see what father was looking at with such a heartbreaking aura. After mother read the note Asure left her body gave out I watched in helplessness all their pain.
"WHY!!!!!!! What wrong have they ever done to have to go through this!!!" I screamed out.
Mother barely got out of bed anymore when she was awake, she had a hallow vacant look in her eyes unless father was home and sitting with her. Father barely slept anymore what with tending to mother, the housework and working to pay the bills. but every day I watched them hold each other and smile lovingly at one another whenever they could. I would walk with them through the flower garden on mothers' better days and listen as she hummed songs to father. But I could feel them both slowly slipping further and further away from me I was losing them both.
______Back to Present_______
"I won't be able to spend much more time with you will I mother and father? What am I going to do without you!!" I cried out in desperation watching them so closely but so far away.
' I'm not feeling so great the lats few days something is wrong I feel like I'm fading away. I know I don't sleep but I keep feeling this pull and black out for a while here and there, but it is getting worse. I need to stop thinking about this for now.' I sat thinking to myself.
Mothers' good days have gotten to be much fewer she only gets out of bed with fathers help any more. the last two days she wouldn't eat anything so since mother wouldn't eat neither did father. the gardens have long withered so I guess if mother and father were to go for a walk it wouldn't make them happier any way. I noticed over the last month that a lot of things about my parents and home were different. Like the vegetable garden we grew is gone the whole yard is just a flower garden. the cottage is a three-bedroom and only one story. How any of this is possible is beyond me. It's like I never existed.
A few days passed and today I knew it was my last day to see mother so when I heard the front door open the heavy foot falls coming through the house i knew dad thought the same. Mother had just lied down the door opened to reveal my father he had lost so much weight dark rings under his eyes I saw him look at my mother as he walked over to the bed. But what happened next was more than I could take and beyond my expectation. He lay down next to mother over the covers, he held her hand and closed his eyes. Neither one ever opened them again they were gone it was like she was waiting for him to come home to her, so they didn't have to say goodbye.