The words tasted like ash on my tongue.What I wanted to do was scream. I wanted to cry. Unfortunately, I don’t have that luxury. Every face seems to be numbed with grief and looking to me for something. I just wish that I knew what the blazes that could be.“We will miss Jamie Blossington, and we will never forget him. Rest in peace, friend.”I looked over to Billy in case he wanted to say anything. He was simply staring at the pyre with the same empty look that everybody else had plastered on their wind-chapped faces. A quick glance told me that nobody else was going to step forward. I truly believe that we have all had about as much as we could handle if we managed to live a dozen lifetimes.I touched the torch to the base and stepped back as the flames began to devour everything. There would be little more than a pile of ash and bone in a few hours. Once the fire burned out, everything would be shoveled into a cart and taken to a burial site. A small monument was being fashioned by Melissa, Thalia, and Emily, and would be placed next to Teresa’s in our little graveyard.One by one, everybody walked away until it was just me and Billy and Dr.
