"Hey, no don't do it. Your kids, life, everything you can't leave it all behind!"

"Yes I can!" She screams crying, "you know your son told me a quote today. Life is full of love, hate, disappointment, and so much more. Let life beat you, and it'll always win." She turns back and looks at me.

"This is not the way, your kids are out there crying for you to be there for them untill the end. Not when you decide but when life and God does." I say.

She looks away and then back at me. "But my husband is gone. He left me and I don't know why."

"He left because he knew his life wouldn't be imperfect without you. And for some reason he wanted something in his life to crush him. Don't let it turn around and happen to you." I come closer and help her down as she starts to sob.

"Thank you so much." She says, she runs out the room downstairs to hug her kids. Then Zach hugs me and smiles, "thank you. Your the girlfriend everyone needs." I laugh and hug him again.
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I collapse in my bed, it's two in the morning and my parents still aren't here. I crawl up and get in the covers then lay my head on the pillow.

I close my eyes and start falling asleep.
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I wake up to instantly grab my phone. I see that a text is there, I go to my messages and see the text is from Clay curiosity lingers and I read it.

Hey, Carmella, havn't  said that name in a while. But yah I'm doing good, I feel better within my spirit. How r u though?

Well, I'm good😊

Thanks for saying hey😉

Yah, no problem. Hey gtg, have a date. Bye.

I get off my bed and take my hair out, do my make up, put on a blue romper and heels, then leave to Zach's.
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I get to his house and the smell of bacon grease hits me, I walk to the kitchen and see it sizzling. "This for your mom?"

"And my siblings and you." He says, I smile, "thank gosh. Cause I skipped breakfast hoping for food." I say, he smiles weakly and places food on plates.

I eat with his siblings as he brings a tray of breakfast to his mom upstairs, a few minutes later he comes down and sits with us.

I pour more thick golden syrup on my blueberry waffles and take a bite. The sweet, fresh, fluffy, bitterness all creating one explosion of flavour.

"How's your mom?" "Still trippy but way better after the talk you guys had." I smile and he tares the bacon with his teeth chewing renouvously.

"Gosh, I am starving." He says, I look at him sympathy in my eyes. I search for sadness in his, but don't find it. I eat another bite of my waffle and take a large gulp of orange juice.

A door from upstairs opens and I see his mom walking down the steps. Her brown hair frizzy and a frazzled look on her face. Syrup stained in her white shirt and her eyes and nose red from crying.

Zach leaps out his chair and takes his mom upstairs before his siblings down. I turn to them, "your mom will be okay. Trust me."

Even though they may not listen to me, it still helps to hear a positive comment.

I eat a strip of bacon and wipe my hands on my pants. I run upstairs and see him giving his mom a kiss on her forhead.

She closes her eyes and drifts to sleep.
Zach turns and gives me a thin purses smile and gets up. We walk downstairs as he sends his little brother to his room and his sister leaves to hers.

He says his mom is too unstable and sad to see them, she can barley talk or communicate. He was lucky she got out of bed for as long as she did. Which was only two minutes.

We sit on the couch and he looks at me. Then leans in and kisses me, after six seconds he pulls away and smiles. "I love you Carmella Coltberry." I smile.

"I love you too." He sits back and I lay my head on his shoulder and we watch 13 Reasons Why.
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I wake up and see I'm still on Zach's living room couch. In a sheet, five o'clock I throw the sheet off me and walk to his room.

I knock and there's no answer. I knock again, nothing. I walk downstairs and pull out my phone when I see him pulling cookies out of the over.

"Oh, I thought you were gone." "Nope, making cookies for the kids. My mom is in her room watching a show." He says, "you fell asleep when episode two ended of our show. So we can watch it again with our cookies if you want?"

I nod smiling and grab a glass filling it with water and taking a sip. I set the glass down and then put two cookies on a plate and plummet down on the couch.

A few minutes later Zach sits next to me and turns the show back on. I bite into a cookie and watch the show.
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I get home and hop in the shower, the steamy water running down my bare body. I get my soap and squirt some in my scrubby and lather it on myself.

When I'm covered in soapy thick white suds I step in the water and let it all run down to the drain.

Then get out and dry off, I blow dry my hair and then lay back in bed trying to go to sleep.