flake, i'm sorry you're finding out like this, i'm sorry i didn't say anything. by the time you read this, i won't be around anymore, but don't cry too much, okay? i'm doing this to finally be at piece. i can't bare it. i can't live like this anymore. you've made me the happiest person alive, but i can't ignore the pain that eats me from the inside out. I'd love to be able to kiss you one more time, say a proper goodbye, but i know you wouldn't let me go. i love you, flake, goodbye. - jack
"No... no, Jack!" Flake cried, sinking down onto his knees next to his boyfriend's cold body, throwing himself over him, hugging him to his chest. "Jack... Jack!" he called, shaking him, desperately, his tears soaking the other's shirt. "NO!" he yelled when someone tried to pull him away, clinging to the corpse. "NO, no, he will be back, he's just pretending, he... he can't be dead!" he cried, refusing to believe it, though deep down, he knew it. He knew that it was over. "Jack... Jack... Jack... Jack, don't leave me..."
Three days later, Flake reached out with a shaking hand, scooping up a little bit of soil, dropping it on the coffin as it was lowered into the grave, then dumped the flowers into it. He looked up as it started to snow. Snow. Snowflakes. He stood there, unmoving, not reacting to anyone's condolences. He stood there when everyone was long gone, watching the snow lay a soft blanket over the one he loved, burying him. "At least it's your element" he whispered, tears freezing on his cheeks.
"My Jack... my soulmate..." he whispered as the sun began to rise and he was finally dragged off by the graveyard guard. "I love you... I miss you..."
A few days later, there was a fresh layer of snow on the grave, and a letter sitting on top of it.
My soulmate. I don't know why I am writing this letter to someone who is dead, but maybe I have no one else to talk to anyway. I miss the hell out of you. I can't spend a second without thinking about you, I can't look anywhere to see all the snow, to see something that reminds me of you. I am so lonely, Jack, and my heart just hurts. I miss you, I don't want to be alone. But I won't be alone much longer. I will join you. I will join you tonight. I will come back to your grave, and I will join you. Forever. I love you, Jack. I can't wait to finally see you again. Please wait for me.
