It was mid-afternoon and they were going out for a swim, and they would have too, if she didn't die. The way I heard it, she stopped walking and fell right there, in the middle of the trail. That's what everyone's saying -- right down on the earth. And he, he had no idea what to do. At first he thought she was kidding, yeah, like people just liked to lie down and faint for fun. And then when it had been maybe a full five minutes, he ran back and screamed for help.
A lot of people think he wanted her to die, that's why he waited.
But I don't think so because the next winter, he walked right into the middle of this frozen lake, the lake they were supposed to go swim in I think, and slipped through the ice. When they found him, his eyes were still open like he was surprised or shot or something, and his skin was pale and raisiny. Such a shame his heart didn't just stop he was so pretty too.
Her family blamed the government for her death. I don't understand it but no one really does; I think they blame the government for everything, it's just what they do. Maybe they mean the hospital for not being able to bring her back. I think it was something about her blood, I don't really know.
And him, they said he killed himself because he'd gone crazy, but I don't think he was. Maybe he just got sick of pretending to be sane like the rest of us. Maybe he was completely honest with himself, finally, and so he did the only thing he thought he deserved. But that's just my theory, because underneath all of us, we're all pretty useless and we try to be useful and that's cool and everything but if you want to just be, well that's cool too.
He didn't get a funeral though because his family didn't want people to see him like that. But she had a really big funeral, a little like a party except everyone wore black and there were a lot of old ladies and their older husbands going about eating everything and taking up all the chairs. And he went to that, and I heard one of his friends say he nearly threw himself off a bridge afterwards because one of the old ladies asked him why he didn't marry her.
