My stepdad said he was going to call when he was going to pull the plug. It was about a week with no news and no news is good news as the saying goes. He was nearly 60 his legs were swollen up to the point where he couldn't move and to top everything off he had kidney failure so in short his body was essentially falling apart.

Fast forward to today where i'm playing smash and have made the finals (against Rosalina & Luma *sighs). I'm one life behind and am trying to catch up when my cellphone rings. Thinking that this is it I pick up my cellphone expecting to hear Don ( my stepdad) instead it was my Mom. She started by saying that Don was dead. I responded by asking why he didn't call if he was going to pull the plug? She said he wasn't going to do that until the end of the month but had suddenly gotten sick and died just this morning.

I'm upset because I was bragging to my friend about how when the call came I was going to go there to be with him so i'd be by his side when it was time for him to go. Instead I had to get the message about his death secondhand. Which also makes me feel like I failed him in some way.

I get that life isn't fair, that nothing ever goes as planned. I just wish it could've gone on schedule this time.