A Friendship promise

He closed his eyes as he softly touched her face. Thinking about the last time he had held her in his arms, it was in the car. They were coming home from her soccer game and they sat in the back seat and he held her. Everything between them was falling apart but he had to hold her one last time just to say goodbye. He could tell that she knew it was over but …

…decided it was over and he didn't get to see her after that. He was in a state of shock when he got to the hospital and saw her lifeless body lying there in the bed. He wondered if she knew what was happening, if she was scared, if she suffered and what she thought about in her last minutes. Now standing beside her coffin he bent over and whispered "friends forever" and walked away.