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A 6-year-old grian was in the village playing with kids his age some a little younger some a little older, he was wearing a white high neck shirt with a red vest and black trousers with brown boots. All the kids we’re playing in the garden’s picking flowers and making flower crown’s little bouquets and anything from flowers there mind’s wanted to make for there friends, family’s just about anyone who wanted one they made one for them, grian was sitting in the flowers with scar at his side and jelly on his lap they we’re finishing up crown’s for each other, grian was making one of Lilac’s for scar and scar was making one of poppy’s for grian, they’ve just met but are close as if they’ve been friends since baby’s, grian was making 2 other crown’s for his parents, once he finished all three crown’s he placed the lilac one on scar’s head, scar touched the crown as he smiled
“thanks, gri! I love it!”
“you’re welcome scar! I’ll be right back” He picked up the two crown’s stood up and ran up to his parents who we’re sitting on a blanket with the other parents
“Mama! Papa! Look what I made for you!” grian was standing In front of his parents holding the two crowns he made one being from daisy’s and the other one made of sunflower’s, he was holding the other two in his hands while looking at his parents after they didn’t react he pouted
“Mama, papa what do you think of them!?”
“There beautiful darling but what do you want us to do with them?”
“You’re supposed to wear them! I need to put them on your head’s!” his mother let out a chuckle as she tilted her head and so did his father, once both of their head’s we’re tilted In front of grian who placed the sunflower crown on his mother head and the one of daisy’s on his father head, he clapped as he saw his parent’s with the crown’s he just made he jumped up and down as he hugged his parent’s
“You look so pretty with the crown’s I made for you!”
“You made them for so us of course there pretty dear” his mother and father we’re smiling at him holding him close, after a few minutes he broke the hug, smiling at his parents as he ran back to scar
Scar was sitting somewhere else in the flower field, trying to put a crown on Jelly but failing miserably
“Scar what are you doing?”
“Trying to give Jelly her own crown but she won’t sit still!” grian walked over to jelly and scooped her up onto his arms and petting the kitten
“There there I have you now girl, I won’t let that mean little boy hurt you anymore” scar gasped
“I am not hurting her! I just want to make her pretty!” scar whined, making grian role his eyes
“She doesn’t, want to wear a flower crown so don’t make her wear one” grian sat down next to scar placing jelly onto his lap petting her
“If she doesn’t like something don’t make her wear it, would you like if I put a scratchy shirt on you?”
“Agh! No! Those are horrible!”
“Exactly that’s how she feels about the crown”
“Ah… I’m so sorry my girl” scar scooted closer to grian and started petting Jelly apologizing to the kitten, grian handed her over to scar who was codling her
“Grian! We have to head home, it’s getting late!” grian turned around and got up
“I have to go scar; will I see you around?” scar looked up from Jelly with a smile
“you will, I’ll see you around!” scar waved bye to grian as he started to walk away
“Bye scar!”
“Grian!”
“Coming!” grian ran over to his parents, they all headed back home
"Ooh, love, no one's ever g-gonna hurt you, love…"
"I'm g-gonna give you… all of my love"
"Nobody… matters l-like you" Grian’s mother was laying in her bed coughing every few words, she was pale at her side kneeling by her and holding her hand was grian with his father next to him
"Your life ain't gon'… be n-nothing like my life…"
"You're gonna g-grow… and have a g-good life…"
"I'm gonna do what… I've got to d-do…" she was playing with grian’s hair in a soothing fashion as she sung
“So, r-rockabye… baby, rockabye…” “I'm going to r-rock you… rockabye baby… Don't You c-cry……” as she finished singing with her last breath she whispered a soft
“I l-love you... so m-much… d-dont forget t-that…” as her last breath left her mouth her head hit the pillow her eyes shutting for the finally time, grian broke out into tears as his father rubbed circle’s on his back to calm him down
“sssh~ it’s going to be alright... she’s in a better place now…”
“I- I- w-why her…? W-why mom…?”
“I don’t know gri, but she’s somewhere safe now, where she’ll never feel no pain anymore, there she’ll always be safe” his father brought him into a hug comforting him, holding him close and rocking him back and forth doing his best to comfort him