My big brother died

' This is a (threequel) to "Decode" and "EncodeX's Game", written by me. I did not copy the idea, and you may not get some aspects of the story if you didn't see my previous creepypastas. '

February 8, 2018
it's been a while since my big brother's funeral. my parents wont tell me the cause of his death, though they did say he was "left hanging". i don't know if this is some dark joke or something. i really don't. my guess is he was killed by either encodex or himself. encodex is a character he's been talking to me about for a while before his death. maybe he even shared it with you guys. the story he told me gave me the absolute chills, and i still remember how terrified i was when he told it to me. i'm not that scared of it now, but it still gives me shivers every time i think about it. i think there's a second part he wanted to tell me but died in the middle of thinking of what to say to me. anyways, if you know what left hanging means, please tell me in the comments. i'll keep you updated on another post.

December 16, 2023 (Another Post)
I've just worked up the courage to look up what "Left Hanging" means, and WOW it was freaking brutal. And judging by the last pasta he wrote, he was the one who killed himself. I mean, "I really want to take my life right now. It would be really easy ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt" sounds a lot like a suicide note to me. Now did he do this willingly, or did he gain the urge to kill himself by EncodeX? And why would encode be seeking revenge? So many questions I have no idea what the answer is to. Did he try to kill encode?///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Encode just tried to murder me. Luckily, I had a knife, to cut the noose. I need to have a knife on me at all times. You never know when you might be hung... out... of... nowhere? Wait, where'd the noose come from? And another one appppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppKnife again. This person is crazy. I blink hard three times. A gaping hole expands between my feet.

' WARNING: "ITS ALL A DREAM" CLICHE. PLEASE STOP READING IF YOU LOVE TO LEAVE UNCONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM '

I fall. And fall. And fall and fall again. I land straight into my pillows in their ordinary spots, the bed. When I flop over to face the ceiling, there's no sight of the hole I fell through. My stomach is still churning from the fall, but I took no damage. Must've been a dream. Did my brother actually die still? I go and ask my parents where my brother is. They respond with "In a better place, my child." I ask how he died. "Left hanging," they respond. Was EncodeX there when my brother died, or did a noose appear, like in my dream? If so, how did my dream know the cause of his death? How can I know how he died? It's not like some magic crystal ball will appear when I wake up tomorrow to tell me how he died, or some axolotl grants me the answer to on-- Wait, was I making a gravity falls reference while wondering how my brother died? I haven't even watched one episode of that show. MAYBE my brain is giving me a hint of how Encode is going to encode his puzzles. Eh, probably not. Why would my brain do that?