You know how you can spend your entire life walking on the wrong path. You can feel like you have it all figured out even though you are just starting and struggling to be a good version of yourself. There are some memories, that don’t die when dawn comes barging in. Some dark times that even the sun can’t chase away. My point is: They are too many things out of our control and the last thing you want to do is get stuck with the guilt of not fixing or doing things that were never in your control, to begin with. As I ran my hands through my soaked scarlet hair, a lone tear crawled down my cheek and I swallowed sharply. I bit hard on my bottom lip as I thunderstruck and pierced my skin. It was almost scary how three years had felt like decades, how much I had linked to come here, all the promises, the guilt, everything that had built up to this exact moment. I wiped my tears which were mixed with rain. I found to hear the hesitant footsteps from Rye, but I did not turn. My fists cle
5 years later. “What happened here?” I sucked in a sharp breath as I glanced around what was supposed to be the children’s room but seemed like a battleground. World war three happened here. “It was him!” Bella cried in her high-pitched voice, I cringed at her tone and glanced in the direction of her voice, my heart skipped a but when I could not find her, but if the mop of blonde curls that peaked out from behind the bed was anything too do by; I was definitely on the right track. I took tentative steps toward her and crouched down to her height, “Baby, what’s going on?” my voice trembled slightly with worry but that was not the only thing threatening an anxiety attack from me at this moment.It was already 10:00 am and I wasn’t even dressed — forget about dressing up, Tyler wasn’t even around to handle the kids and he promised me. Today was my bug day and he promised he would fill in, but as always, he just runs off with his burger. Bella reluctantly reached out to mean because
If I could turn back time – I'd go back to those times I constantly wished I was an adult. Because this... this wasn't the adult life I signed my lazy self -up for. At twenty three, I didn't have anything to be proud of, well except for the beautiful certificate that is hung in my mother's room till date. Would you believe me if I said I was a first class medical doctor working as a receptionist in some down run hotel? No? okay. Well, at least I was. I continued to pack up my stuff into a small box, it had been barely thirty minutes since the letter was sent to me, my letter of termination and in the lame man's words – I'd been sacked. Why? I can't explain it. I don't know why it took them so long to sack me though. The only reason I agreed to get this annoying job was because I had to pay rent in the small room I lived in after I got kicked out of my father's home by my mom's boyfriend. Pretty harsh right? I looked around the small counter I used to call an office. It
"You want me to sleep with you don't you?" I asked and the first tear rolled down my cheek. "I see you are blunt. So what do you say?" My Yaser said with a smirk. "You have a daughter right, she's um? Twenty two?" I said as I got closer to him and locked eyes with him; "Go sleep with her" I spat. I didn't wait to see his facial expression before I began to walked from him - towards the apartment so I could pick up my things. It was official. I was homeless. Now, Desperate times called for desperate measures and I was about to do something that would change everything completely.No matter what it took. ___________ I sucked in a deep breath as I picked up my things, I had a lot of stuff so I decided that I would sell some of them off if push comes to shove. I was never selling myself to a man. It was for that reason I hated my mother. Sometimes I try to put myself in the woman's place, yeah I get that she was confused when she gave birth to a child at age sixteen and she prob
Someone screamed as I dug my hands into Emiliana's hair. The pale blonde dug her hands into my hair in response and the moment, I slammed her into a wall, she stared at me with wide shocked eyes; I wasn't the tallest person on planet earth and I definitely wouldn't win an award concerning great body build, I was slender – slender, beautiful but slim. People often confused my body stature as someone who wouldn't be able to hold their ground in a fight when the truth was, I knew exactly how to maximize my skin and bones if push came to shove. "You are hurting me!" She screeched as she tried to push me away. I let her go and slapped her across the face twice, she roared and tugged on my hair tighter, her knee connected with my rib and it was my turn to let out a yelp, I grunted and rolled over, I didn't know why no-one was stopping this fight, but I appreciated it. It was high time people like Emiliana got what was coming to them. On a normal day, I could never imagine myself doin
He grunted loudly. I thought this free time to turn and finish her off but when I did - Emilia was gone, that little coward ran away. How iconic. "Look what you've done!" I said as I pointed to the ground frustratedly. "Look what I have done?" He matched my tone as I held his jaw, his steel-blue eyes piercing my skin in what seemed to be a stern manner "I just stopped you from committing homicide and probably spending the rest of your life behind bars or six feet under" I ran my hands through my hair, this dude was dumber than he looked "oh really?" I gasped in fake shock "thank you so much! Thank you so much for saving my life!" I exclaimed as I glanced around and then locked eyes "but what fake shrink convinced you that I needed saving? did it not cross your mind that you could have just held her down and let me finish her off?" I spat and looked in the direction Emiliana ran in. "I am not a murderer" the man deadpanned. I rolled my eyes and turned to face him "Thanks to yo
"Wait!" I heard the woman call out to me as I dragged my belongings with me and ran "I didn't even catch your name!" she yelled again. I spun around and with a goofy smile I replied "Danielle Brown" Now, I wasn't stupid. I knew that I was no dancer and it would be almost impossible to learn how to be a professional dancer in one week – which was the stipulated deadline for the recruit. I could barely carry myself talk less of doing stunts and whatnot. But if there was anything I had learned in the past year – it was the hard painful truth that I was all alone. I had no mom to call, no dad to bother, and no friend to Scott with, I also had no job and was practically homeless so as insane as this may sound, this was my last chance to turn my messed up life into something well, meaningful. There was one person though, who was an amazing dancer and who I just happened to know, I had a minus one million in one chance that she would agree, but then again, if there's
I groaned as I stared at the tall fence in front of me, the house had been built as a gift for my mother on her thirty-seventh birthday. I could still recall that day as vividly as I could recall the events that followed. Daniel had given my mother the house as a gift and that night was the night he died. He was found at the back of the house, laying on the ground, his body void of all the life it used to emit. The doctors claimed he had a cardiac arrest and it was a heart attack but to date, I refused to believe it. To believe it was just that and nothing more. I looked around, it was late and I could barely see but it was clear that the moon was casually leaving the sky because it was morning already, yes, I had stayed up all night trying to figure out a way in. This is not one of those cliché stories where the main character just dramatically finds a ladder from someone and gets in. Think people! Let's brainstorm.I pulled out my phone. It looked worn out and was