Chapter 10
AN: This is the last chapter. After this chapter you can all tell
me how horrible I am for killing Brian and making Nick out to seem like such a
monster. But I said it before and I’ll say it again. I like writing reality
fictions. So no, I don’t think Brian’s gay and I don’t see his death anywhere
in the near future. And no I don’t think Nick is that cruel. That should answer
the basis. Alright so enjoy the conclusion of “Forbidden Love, Unrelenting
Hate”.
He stood over the fresh grave. The grave of a forgotten friend.
Gunned down in pure hate, he now would lay there forever, never again able to
laugh at a joke. But he supposed if he had lived that brutal attack he probably
wouldn’t have laugh much anymore. Why? Because his best friend had turned his
back on him.
Nick ran a shaky hand through his hair and sighed. It seemed like
so long ago he had looked into Brian’s frightened eyes while he screamed words
of hate at him. Swearing to hurt him if he ever came near him again. He had
called him such cold and derogatory things.
And know Brian was dead. For the same reason Nick had turned his
back on him. Someone else couldn’t accept him for being different. For being
gay.
But Nick hadn’t changed his mind. He still thought gays were
morally wrong and that it was a disgusting thing. There was still resentment on
his part towards Brian for ever falling in love with him. So he couldn’t figure
out why he came to stand in front of Brian’s grave. He hadn’t attended the
funeral. Kevin probably would have killed him if he had. The two of them hadn’t
spoken since that phone call before Brian’s death. The one where he had pleaded
that Nick open his eyes. He had gotten the news about Brian from a very upset
AJ and Howie. They showed up at his room crying, and hoping that he would do
the same. But Nick hadn’t shed a tear. And with that, those two had also walked
out on him.
So why did he stand before the grave of his fallen foe? Because he
had been thinking ever since he had gotten the news. The image of Brian laying
there broken and bleeding refused to leave his mind. It had been then that he
realized that even the gays are people. Brian had bled like any normal person
would have. He had come to see that Brian, though different and something Nick
hated, was still just as human as he. And he was still his best friend when he
fell.
Nick knew the only way he could put himself at ease was to visit
his friend and apologize for things he never got to say. But now that he was
there, he couldn’t think of them. He placed a shaky hand on the headstone and
whispered the only words that came to mind.
“I’m sorry.”
With that he turned and walked away, with no
plans of ever returning to that spot. As he walked away, the wind picked up
around him and he could have sworn he heard a voice. Brian’s voice whispering
back in his ear only.
“It’s okay. I will always love you.”
Nick didn’t stop walking but his eyes watered up. As he reached
the gate he could still hear Brian’s voice wind, this time singing to him.
“Come what may,
Come what may,
I will love you,
Until my dying day.”
With those final words, Nick left Brian’s voice singing softly in
the cemetery. But he was able to leave with the reassurance that he had his
best friend back.
Nick would never again visit Brian’s grave. But the day he died he
was known to have squeezed his brother’s hand and quietly sang.
“Come what may,
Come what may,
I will love you,
Until my dying day…”
The End
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