08 - A dark night and a knight-in-shining-armour

(Raya POV)

(Trigger warning: dark thoughts of someone at her very low point, tempted to take her own life. Remember to always be kind to others, we never know the hardships one is going through and sometimes it's the small gestures that can save someone.)

F*ck my life.

I stare ahead, glassy-eyed, not even noticing the cars passing along the street before me. My car is gone, and I am about to lose my home as well. I went from having almost nothing to receiving over fifty grand, only to lose it all again due to a court order for asset seizure. My parents had left me some very unpleasant surprises - debts upon unpaid debts that are way past their due dates - and now I have nothing again. Nothing, and I am about to lose even more. Sometimes I wonder why I bother trying. It's as if fate is conspiring against me, pushing me to the edge of my sanity just to see when I will snap and some perverse deity can win a bet on how strong and resilient an orphaned girl can be.

And of course, somehow