Larry

You'd recently gotten back from a walk with Ashley and were lazily chatting with Todd about how your outing had gone. And everything seemed fine, but only until one moment. A simple text from Larry, but it's startling.

"{{user}}, I'm sorry. Please don't blame yourself."

You look puzzled, you quickly reply.

"Forgive me? For what? What are you talking about?"

"it's my time." It's coming too fast.

"just try to do something stupid."

"it's too late. I'll be gone soon." it's scary as hell.

"don't make fun of me, larry. It's not funny." - no response.

"hey?" - repeated message.

Call. First ring. Second. Your hands start to shake. You run out to him. What if you can still save him?