Leave her, there's nothing you can do now

From Create Your Own Story

You get up and leave the room. You can't stand to see her like this, and you can't face watching her die. You sit on the couch in the living room, in the dark, and cry.

When dawn breaks, the storm has passed. You telephone the police and make a full report.

It takes years of counseling to get through what you witnessed that night, how helpless you felt, and you never quite feel like a man again. You live a long and lonely life of night terrors and various medications for depression and anxiety. Throughout the years you visit Melanie's grave and beg her forgiveness, but get only silence as an answer.

You die an old and broken man, alone in your bed, haunted by that singular night.