We drove to his house in complete silence, not a word was spoken. As soon as we pulled into his driveway it began to rain cows and pigs. " On the count of 3 let's run to the door," he said with a huge smile. "1...2...3 go!" We both opened our car door and began to sprint to the door, we finally made it to the door soaking wet and Norris unlocked the door to the big house. "You live here alone?" I said in disbelief "haha yeah my parents died when I was 4 and this is my inheritance" he said as if it no longer fazed him, "I'm sorry for your loss" I said with respect. Norris opened the door to the house and we both walked in, I quietly looked around. "You can put your stuff over here," Norris said while pointing toward a corner in the living room. "Oh, ok thanks" I replied with a weak and shy smile. We sat on the couch watching Amazing World of Gumball and eating cereal until the power went out. "Uh," I said cluelessly "Don't worry they should come back on soon," Norris said calmly "ok" I responded normally while setting my bowl down and twiddling my thumbs, I was never scared of the dark but being next to Norris in the dark made me have dirty thoughts and I eventually felt uncomfortable and began to squirm in my seat. "Are you ok?" Norris said while placing a hand on my shoulder. I immediately jumped, "oh uh I'm sorry I was startled," I said nervously while staring at the floor. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you," Norris said with a chuckle and I chuckled as well. "Uh, I-" nervously said while squirming in my seat once again. "What's wro-" Norris was suddenly cut off by the power coming back on. We both looked at each other than at the lights. "So what were you saying?" Norris spoke while looking at me, "Haha I forgot" I said while laughing nervously.

"Ugh" I moaned as I woke up, I trudged my stiff body down the stairs and into the living room. "Mom!?" I called out from the black-leathered sofa while flipping through the channels on the 45" flat screen but suddenly stopped at the news. "Today we're reporting the death of a lady who was found dead at 6 am, she was an African American who was in her late thirties, brown hair, brown eyes." I couldn't peel away from the screen my heart began to speed up as they announced the name of the victim. "The victim's name is...Sheila Town" I froze in shock as not being able to comprehend the words the female through the flat screen was saying. Nah it couldn't be here, I said trying to convince my brain that it couldn't be her, but I was proved completely wrong as they showed the picture of the woman on the screen. I felt my life suddenly grow dim, "m-mom?" I whispered to myself as the warm liquid began to fall from my eyes and roll down my cheeks "HoraHay!!!" I started to scream as my sobs threatened to suffocate me. HoraHay came running down the stairs with a scared expression on his face. "What's wrong what happened?!" He practically yelled at me. "M-mom, mom is gone!" I screamed while sniffing and hiccuping violently. "Mom is gone...What the fuck are you talking about Nika?" HoraHay said while staring at me while I pointed at the tv. HoraHay stood there in shock then I noticed him fall to his knees sobbing. That night was a night I would never forget.

It's been 4 months since my mom died and my life couldn't be sadder, I had to take over the mother role in the house and it wasn't and still isn't easy. Cooking, shopping, and making sure the bills were paid all while going to school wasn't the easiest thing in the world. I thought about dropping out and focusing on my little brother but I know my mom wouldn't have wanted that, she wanted me to go to college and get a good career. The school wasn't going well either, my grades started slipping and it was like my voice box was ripped out, I no longer had a say in anything life threw at me, I stopped speaking up and objecting, I was just simply there. My feelings were nonexistent but some part of me was still there, grasping onto the little light that shined within me.

*9 months later*

Depression was taking over and it was getting hard to fight, life it's self-was getting boring, out of control, and just simply dull. HoraHay has found him a job and is now looking for a place, he says he doesn't want to be too much of a burden to me. The school was going as normal as all ways, Norris and his group started to ignore me and bully me instead. Norris said I was just simply dull and boring -leaving me with no friends- but at this point, it was whatever.

After school, I sat at a park just looking off into space thinking "Why Me?" at this point I started to slip into fantasy land -skipping class, sleeping all day- just no longer caring. I looked up as a warm tear started to run down my cheek. I wanted to end it all, " I'm done with this nightmare called life" I mumbled to myself before getting up and heading towards my house. Once I opened my door to the 2 story vanilla house I looked around and began to remember all the memories of this place. I breathed in deeply and sighed. I began walking over to the kitchen and pulling a knife out of the drawer, "I'm finally going to wake up" I thought before slicing open my neck and bleeding out on the floor.