Part 2

A Chapter by HeartInTheDark

I wake up in my old bed, with a glass of water nearby and a plate of food, I check the time, s**t it’s already ten PM? I swear I stopped running just as the sun went down. I quickly eat to regain my strength, well resting already gave me enough, I hear a discussion in the lounge room, my brother who is 18 this year, and my parents, who seem to be trying to figure out what happened. My brother hits the nail on the head “Maybe that Stacey cheated on him, I knew he shouldn’t have trusted her” I walk out all three of them turn and look at me I manage to choke out a sentence “yeah that’s right little bro”, I then do something I haven’t done since I was a little child, I launch myself into my mums arms and start balling my eyes out. I tell them in detail about everything that happened, Dad marches off next door to explain to her parents what happened, his face is grimmer when he returns then when he left. “They told me she has been doing it since you guys started at Uni” he tells me I can’t take anymore, it feels like a million arrows have pierced straight through my heart “for five years?” I ask, I would cry more, but I don’t have any tears left “why didn’t they tell me” I asked “they said they didn’t want to hurt you” “WELL THEY ONLY MADE IT WORSE” I take my anger out on him, I know I shouldn’t “I’m sorry dad, I shouldn’t be yelling at you” “let’s go to bed everyone” says mum, we all nod in agreement and they head off to bed. Seeing as it’s already midnight everyone is tired, I wait for them all to go to bed as I sit on the couch, trying to think what I’m going to do, I’m done I think, I head out to the shed and find a rope, I’m ending it tonight. I tie it into a noose and tie it to the beam in the roof of the shed, I climb onto a milk crate and put it over my head, I look out the sky light in the shed, and I see a full moon, beautiful in the night sky, and it saves me. It makes me think about all the happy times in my life, if I die now, I will have too many regrets.

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