Short Stories

Mother

//Mention of suicide//

"Oh, darling, you are so very broken and no one cares to notice" The mother said as she laid her hand on her sons' shoulder. "They've broken and abused you, with no regard for your sanity" She pushed a lock of her son's raven hair back behind his ear as tears started to stream down his face.

"I just want the pain to stop" The son sobbed clutch in his shirt. "I can't breathe most of the time, I feel as if I am drowning and I don't know why" The boy said as he choked a sob.

The mother whipped the tears of her son's checks. "You have given them so much, you have healed them, and they gave you nothing back, you need not help them my son, it is not your duty to do so"
The son's breath quickened as his vision became blurry.

"How do I make it stop mum?"

The mother stood from where she had been kneeling in front of her son. She walked over to his desk where she took the bottle of pill from behind a stack of books. Shaking the bottle to make sure there were still pills inside the mother gave a sad smile walking back to where her son sat sobbing. "Now my dear boy, take these and sleep, the pain will go away" The mother said as she grabbed hold of her son's hand placing the bottle in his hand.

The bow stared at the pills in his hand, slowly but surely opening the lid shaky dropping the content of the bottle in his hands. He looked at the blue pills unsure whether to take the pills or not. The mother gave her son a reassuring smile as he took the pills. "Will you be there when I wake up mom?" The boy asked.

"Yes, I will always be there for you" She said, pulling her son into a hug. Feeling a coldness wash over his body the boy lifted the pills to his mouth going to take them.

"Andy! What the fuck are you doing!" A voice yelled out as the door slammed against the door. Shocked by the sudden loud sounds Andy dropped the pills, staring at his older brother with eye wide open. "What were you about to do with those?"

"I-I" He struggled to form a sentence.

His older brother walked over to where Andy sat on the floor, kneeling next to him. "Please tell me you weren't about to-"

"I can't take it anymore! I can't" Andy yelled as he frantically wiped away the tears streaming down his face. "I just- I miss, I-I" He struggled to make out sentences as he was sobbing uncontrollably now.
His brother pulled him into a warm hug rubbing his back in circles. "I know, I miss mum too" Andy wrapped his arms around his brother. "How about we move, get out of this house, start a new"
Andy nodded, as he pulled out of the hug wiping his tears away. "You were always the smart one" The mother said with a sad smile. "I guess I'll have to wait for a while longer"