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Cassius

He leaves us alone and my eyes stay fixed on the only man I have ever loved. He is still standing by the door. There is no life in his eyes. What happened to him?

''Gyles,'' I call his name before taking a step towards him. He doesn't respond to me but that doesn't stop me. I wish he would just come back to the way he was, remember me. A lot has changed about me. I grew up before I was turned. To him, I might be a different person and he wouldn't even remember me but I remember everything. All the pain from my wound, the pain in my chest, they all vanish at this moment because I am with him again. ''It's me, Rogers,'' I tell him the name I haven't used in a long time. I gave up that name the day I lost him. I didn't want to remember all the bad things. I wanted to let go of the past but I couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, he was always on my mind.

I could never wipe him away. 

No matter how hard I tried.