Dec 16, 2005 02:17
'Anubis,
Been a while since we actually carried on one of our normal conversations, eh nii-san??
A lot seems to has transpired over the last 2 hours, and well.... I just felt like I really needed to email you. See I went to the movies with some friends from school that I've known for God knows how long, we got home at around 12 after dropping everyone off and just as I was getting out of the car my cell phone rang. When I answered it was my friend Hofuru (I think I've mentioned her in conversation once or twice) and she sounded upset. Asking what was wrong she answered 'Erik's head' which didn't register to me at first, then I went numb.
After some more choked sobs it turns out that Erik (Hofuru's older brother) had fallen from a tree of about 20 feet while trying to impress his girlfriend and caused massive brain damage and intense bleed around the brain, and was indeed brain dead. The family had gone to the hospital and Naru (another of my friends) was with Hofuru and that she had called because she just really needed to hear my voice right then. So at around 12:30 ish mom and me headed over to Hofuru's house to wait for her family to get home because all I could think about was comforting my friend and, as it turns out, we waited until around 1:12 before she returned to gather some things to spend the night at a Mrs. Thomas's house for the night so she could be there in the morning when they took Erik off life-support.
I helped Hofuru pack while Mrs. Thomas and mom went around turning off all the lights and locking the doors because the family had just left without so much as turning off the TV. The hardest part to watch was Hofuru go over to her brother's room and shut the door, practically on the verge of tears, in a gesture of really accepting that Erik wasn't coming back- she knew it was true but until that point I don't think she really wanted to accept it, but with the motion of shutting the door almost confirmed it in an all to real way.
The more I thought about it, my thoughts went to you and how I would meltdown if you died- but even more so- and that I would probably never know.
So I guess what I'm really trying to say is that even though we've never really met before, but I truely view you as an older brother and I want you to know that I love you as if you had always been my brother.
Just thought I'd let you know, even if it might seem selfish of me.
~Eevee'
eric