All Fall Down || Riley and Luna
Riley stood up and brushed off her black dress, sighing. Damn it. I should’ve changed first. I hate black. She thought about it for a moment at shrugged. If this was the place she thought it was then there was no need to worry, no need to sweat the small stuff. Riley listened to the other girl talking for a moment before reverting back to the almost child-like state that she had been in for a few days. Crossing her arms over her chest and sighing, Riley began to speak quietly, still unsure of the exact circumstances and where they were, not wanting to disturb anyone. “Well thats dumb. You didn’t give me any choice in that promise! I don’t want to. I’m tired, and I miss you. I know tired is a dumb excuse, but I don’t mean physically tired. I mean like.. My everything is tired. I’m tired of pretending to be happy and like everything is okay. Plus, now it doesn’t have to be just me continuing on for both of us. We can be together again, right?”
The dark haired girl began to speak again soon after Riley had finished talking and the girl delivered another subtle glare in her general direction. “I missed you too, L. Why did you leave me? I don’t want to be alone. Plus, who says it’s not supposed to be this way? I think it’s just fine.”
"Riley..." She said, her voice always echoing in Riley's ears. In the split second she blinked, Luna was behind her. "You're not alone," the word 'alone' sounded angrier than the rest, the memories of it escaping her lips always laced with irritation and loneliness. But Luna sweetly smiled, her eyebrows arching sympathetically. Her skin glowed like a soft, nightlight, and it was if she was made up of reflections in a shop front windows, overlapped and moulded together to give substance. "You don't want this. I don't want this for you, and neither do your friends. People love you so much, R. They care about you. And they're selfish and need you around. You have to stay alive, because this is bigger than you." With a flicker and a turn of a page, they were in Dylan's room, like flies on the wall. He couldn't see them, hear them or touch them. They were completely invisible, in a whole other world. There he sat upon the end of his bed, carelessly drinking without much pause in-between mouthfuls. His eyes were sunken in and red rimmed, and his skin had grown pale. He clenched onto his phone so tightly, his knuckles were turning white. "Dylan has been drinking out of spite and avoidance of himself since I left. But he received your text, and now look at him." Dylan's shoulders shook, and his brow never uncreased. His face was red, like he wasn't breathing. His jaw jutted out in anger, and his cheeks were wet with tears. "He's breaking. Because he loves you and you've left him. All he wants to do is to help, you just need to let him. He won't let you be alone." Then they were in the cemetery and overlooking Bones, filling in Luna's grave with dark, red dirt. He looked completely distant. His body was just competing the actions he'd done so many times before. And his mind was absent, his eyes empty. Then he received Riley's last text. After reading a few lines, his face changed completely. It slowly filled with anguish and distress as he dropped his shovel and stumbled backwards. He fell over a pile of dirt, and landed with a great thud. He lay there, his chest heaving, and his hands shaking, trying to type a reply. "His world is crashing down around him, Riley. He loves you so much, and he needs you. He's already struggling to cope. He's already contemplating running away, because he can't bare to think of burying another friend. He's breaking. He needs you, just as much as you need him. He will keep you company, and he will listen, and he will always be there. You just have to wake up, and let him in." "And then there is Hunter. He hasn't moved in hours... he doesn't talk, he doesn't nod or shake his head when someone addresses him. He doesn't eat and he doesn't drink. Hell, he hardly even blinks. He's gone. He's empty. He's nothing without you Riley." Luna walked over and sat beside the shell of a boy, staring intently at him as if he were alien. Then she glanced over to Riley, "he loves you." Back in the whiteness of a space out of time, Luna stood over Riley, laying on the colourless floor. She kneeled down beside her and stroked her cheek. Her fingers didn't touch her skin, instead they went right through. Riley only felt a concentrated breeze of warm air. "You have to wake up. You have to wake up and give yourself and others and the world another chance. Just one more chance. You have to wake up, and you have to live. Don't survive. Live." Luna offered one last smile. Then she collapsed into the air. Her body breaking off into rays of light before vanishing completely.
