her tone had as much weight to it as that of a defiant child who wouldn't give up their toy. tears began to well but she refused to let them fall.
❛ you- you're gonna get up and we- we're gonna walk out of here together, like we always do. ❜
brenda held onto her hand so tight it hurt, but she couldn't will herself to let go. her chest had wound itself up into a thousand knots, the tension causing her physical pain as she looked down at her sister. brenda held her close in her trembling arms, and she would continue t to until she got up.
it had always been just the two of them, they'd witnessed their father take one between the eyes and watched him die before he hit the ground. it was them two against the world and to lose one would destroy the other.
❛ we're a team, you can't leave. ❜
she hadn't spoken and brenda willed herself to look down to the open wound that took up the greater area of her chest. she whimpered, having to look away after a few moments. it wasn't looking good for her but she wouldn't admit to herself she was going to lose her other half.
she bit down on her lip as she waited for something but there was no response, no breath, no nothing. the tears that she held back for so long broke through the dam and spilled over onto her cheeks. she screamed her throat sore as she rocked herself to and fro, her sister's lifeless body in her arms.
she forced herself to breath, gasping for breath that she screamed back out. her entire world went to hell when all of it, the sun flares, the virus, happened and now she'd lost the one person who kept her grounded through it all.
she'd lost her anchor and that hurt more than anything.