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Johnathan leaned on Alex's back, sighing into the blonde's hair. "...thanks Alex." was all he said, and really, that's all that needed to be said.

The police were giving their polite condolences and taking their leave so the coroners could finish their job. Cleanup may not have been necessary but the cleanup crew's information was left discreetly on the counter. It was a simple business card that Johnny and his mother could deal with later. Funeral arrangements would need to be made, relatively contacted and so forth.

But for now, grieving needed to take place. Johnny sighed, giving Alex the thermos to fill with tea. "I guess... we gotta follow mom, huh? Go to the coroner's or the morgue or whatever we gotta do. I dunno." The boy sounded utterly exhausted and he looked it too - dark circles forming thickly under his eyes. Johnny couldn't drive and he frowned as if he suddenly remembered this fact.

The boy with snow blue hair followed the blonde quietly, absently snagging his coat from its place on the couch where he'd left it. It was warm and heated his flesh but his bones and his heart remained cold. It would be like that for quite a while, he imagined, for losing a parent was very rough on the family. Especially the child. Especially the child who walked in on the father and sat there, watching the lifeless corpse. Johnny probably shouldn't have done that but what was done was done. Nothing could have been done to correct it.

Brushing up beside Alex, Johnny wrapped a hand in his. Alex was the only friend in the world to him at that moment. The only anchor in a sea of grief that Johnny felt utterly lost in. With his mother and father's body whisked away and the police slowly filing out to speak to the neighbors who stood on their lawns, Johnny felt cold and alone. Save for Alex.

Perhaps now was the time to grow up.