After my father died, my mother fell into a deep depression. I was just born, so I didn't even know I had a dad until later.
Then my mother fell ill, and that changed everything.
It threw my aunt and I into a deep depression. My aunt had believed in God. She was neutral about it until my mother wasn't getting any better. Then she began to hate God. I never believed, so that wasn't an issue for me.
Anyways, my mother—she wasn't getting any better. That caused my aunt to go deeper into the depression and she started drinking. For right now I would be living with her until my mother gets better, but we both know that means I'm living with her until I go off to college, and even then, I won't be coming back to visit my mother.
This meant that for right now, I, the 14-year-old, was stuck with caring for my aunt. I had to cook her dinner, get her to bed, try to help her get better. That was hard because she wouldn't lay off the alcohol. She was done.
I was done too; I just didn't have a choice. I planned to kill myself this Wednesday, however now, things had changed drastically.
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The Chapel
Fiksi UmumMaxwell, a teenager in a world of hurt, discovers that something greater is taking place than what meets the eye in his own homelife, school, and neighborhood. He and his new friends team up with a stranger to fix up the old Chapel building near his...
