"It's not your time yet."

The young boy nodded, round deep forest eyes glistening under the moonlight. His lips were quivering but he able to stretch out his smile. A lovely one at that.

It'd been a while for me to be deserved such a smile.

"You're early too." he replied, standing up from the bench that settled inside the corridors. His height barely reach the chin when I noticed he gaze up to see me now with a merrier expression.

"Um.. before we're going, can I go to the park over there?" he ask, pointing to the mini garden that lay outside the building. "I want to bring a little gift for my other siblings."

Bewildered by the sudden request, I nodded reluctantly, slowly following the young boy from behind.

' I'm scared to live, I'm scared to death. I'm scared of this way of life I'm heading'

His slender fingers softly caressing the marigolds petals while humming a soft tune. As if he comforting them before plucking the flowers from its stem.

"Our parents died long ago." he spoke up, his hand paused from caressing the petals. "And my eldest brother have been working so hard to keep everything together."he said, plucking the flower off. "Honestly, I'm scared. I want him to rest now...yet I don't want him to feel lonely."

' I'm afraid one day I'll forget, forgetting myself, falling and get hurt.'

He turns to look up at me, in his hands were five marigold flowers.

"Thank you for coming to take me."

A smile.

My lips stayed sealed, no words seem the best to give comfort. It feels hurt, but who am I to play god? Still, no one has been kind enough to say such words to me.

To Death itself.

' I feared my breathe would be stolen. I feared of you and myself.'

"He can live at ease now that nothing can weigh him down no more." warm tears trickling down from his cheeks. "Let's go now. Before he wake up."

' All those hardships that I'll have to face, I'm afraid of everything in this world.'

Those warm hands has now lose its warmth.

Those corner of his lips will never smile anymore.

Those eyelids will never show those beautiful irises underneath them anymore.

and let it be forever closed.

It always too late for Gempa when he realised the next day,

He was left alone in this world once again.

explanation: Thorn is in his brink of death, that night The Death came to bring his soul away. Thorn asked to go to the garden, bringing with him flowers for his brothers that already at the other side. Gempa was left alone, since he is the only one now living.

A/n: the words in '...' are song lyrics, potraying brief of Thorn's fears and his desire to escape from the hardships he have to face yet conflicted to live Gempa alone. Praying for Gempa that able to live his life without him, he left the world with the Death. this story is complicated my head is spinning ugh-

music and lyrics: Takut, Yonnyboii ft Caprice