TW: Abuse, death, loss, bad language,
"Come back" he yells as she runs away laughing.
Jack runs after his girlfriend Catherine as she runs away towards the field of flowers. Jack finally grabs Catherine around the waist spinning them around while they both laugh. "I love you" Catherine whispers while looking Jack in his eyes still in his arms. "I love you more" Jack replies also looking into her eyes. "I love you most" Catherine says while she giggles and escapes Jack's arms and starts to run again.
After a fun day hanging out with her boyfriend Catherine goes back to her home but what Jack does not know is that her home is not a safe place. When she walks through the door she immediately ducks to avoid getting hit in the head with a vase. "COME HERE YOU LITTLE SLUT" her 'father' yells. Slowly Catherine makes it into the living room where her 'father' stands very much drunk and angry. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SLUT" he yells "Out taking a walk" she whispers not wanting him to know about Jack and go after him even though they have been dating for years. Her 'father' walks towards her and punches her in the gut making her fall to the ground, he then proceeds to kick her repeatedly in the stomach. Hours later he finally stops and goes into his room leaving Catherine in a puddle of blood. Little does her 'father' know she recorded the whole entire thing and she plans on having someone find it and give it to the police but that will not be her.
Crawling into her bedroom she gets her phone out and takes pictures of the damage. Has been doing it since it started. Catherine then finds paper and a pencil to write her final goodbye to her loved one.
Dear Jack,
If you are reading this I am no longer on this planet. I love you so much and this is not your fault at all. You were the light of my life but the pain just got too much to handle that's why I did this. Don't blame yourself for not knowing I made sure you did not know for a reason. I ask one thing though please do not do anything crazy and move on with your life just never forget that I love you and I died thinking about how much I love you. The reason that I have done this is because I have been abused by my so called father for five years and I have had enough of this. There is proof on my phone of all the abuse and even a video of him doing it, you know my password so you can find it and give it to the police. I will always be by your side even if you can't see me and i'll always try my best to protect you from harm. I love you so so so much just never forget that.
Love,
Catherine Black
After she wrote the letter she went to bed. The next morning she left the house and went over to Jack's place where she would be giving him the letter. Upon reaching his house Jack walked outside to meet her with a confused look on his face. "I thought we were not meeting until later. What's up baby?" She sighed trying to keep her tears in. Catherine just walked up to Jack and hugged him. "What's wrong darling?" Jack asks "Nothing just really needed a hug" Catherine says as to not worry Jack. She pulls away and smiles at him and gives him a passionate kiss and then looks him in the eyes. "Here is a letter I wrote to you but you can't open it until 4pm okay" she asks while giving him the letter. "Okay I promise I won't open it until then" Jack says "Good" Catherine says "I will not be able to hang out later so maybe tomorrow okay?" She asks him "Yeah that's good with me" he says "Okay bye I love you" she tells him before she kisses him again "Bye I love you too" he says after they pull apart. Catherine smiles at him then turns around and walks home.
When she gets to her house she goes right upstairs into her bedroom and grabs the bottle of pills. She opened the cap, took a deep breath and swallowed all the pills that were in the bottle. Not long after she left herself get really tired and started to fade away into darkness.
At 4pm that night Jack sat on his bed reading the letter with tears running down his face. He immediately got up and started running to his girlfriend's house while calling the cops on the way. "911 what's your emergency?" the operator says "Hello my name is Jack Smith and I just read my girlfriends suicide letter I am running to her house right now her address is ***** Stark Lane please hurry!" he rushes out on the phone "We will be as quick as possible" the operator says into the phone before they hang up. He reaches the house and runs inside but not before noticing the pool of blood in the living room. He runs up the stairs as fast as he can and barges into Catherine's room. Jack stops dead in his tracks when he sees his girlfriend's lifeless body on the ground with an empty will bottle by her hand.
Jack runs to her body and holds her to his chest all while screaming "NO NOT MY BABY!! NOT MY BABY!!!" he keeps yelling that until the paramedics get into the room and just looking at the scene in front of them they start tearing up and one goes to pull Jack away from Catherine's body. "NO THAT'S MY BABY NO NO NO" he screams while they pull him away making all the paramedics tear up even more. Finally they got him outside. "Do you know what made her do this?" one of the paramedics asks and Jack just hands them the letter, tears still spilling out of his eyes. They bring out Catherine's phone for him to unlock and gives it to the police for evidence. Jack started crying harder when he saw them bring out the love of his life covered in a white sheet.
A month later Catherine's dad has been arrested and her funeral has already happened but Jack still has not come to terms with his love's death and still cries himself to sleep every night. Right now Jack is standing at her grave tears in his eyes while he talks to the grave wishing she would talk back.
"Come back" he whispers to her grave.
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