Chapter 31

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EZRA

When driving back to the apartment with the suffering and, anger; I hated that I left everyone without reason and heard Rachel and my mother blowing up my phone, but I don't give a fuck right. I get to my apartment door; I take off this damn suit jacket and shoes and tie, throw them on the ground and go to the kitchen. I go through every cabinet and nook to a bottle of whiskey or something, "Ah, found you," I say to myself, grabbing the small bottle of whiskey and drinking from the bottle. As its burning hit the back of my throat, I dig in for more.

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Meanwhile, I wonder the apartment to my room; I fell a couple of times from stumbling over my feet on the stairs. I place the bottle on the nightstand, walk to the closet and grab the box in the corner. It says, 'Memories of Skylar for Ezzie'; when she could talk, she couldn't say my name correctly, so I got the name for her, I didn't mind it. I open up the taped-up box and take a deep breath as I see all sorts of things she had, like glittery butterfly wings from her last Halloween with us. Then I grab the photo album that my mom put together when she was born to see a picture of me holding Skylar when she was a baby, next to the words 'Me and my brother'. Moments later, I keep looking through the box, but it's like the memory of Skylar is slipping away the more years than come, and in a split second, I snap like a twig that I threw it against the wall.

As I throw a glass vase against the wall, I  gulp down the whiskey with the other hand to drown my sadness and guilt before noticing the bottle is empty.

"Fuck!" I yell out, walk towards the kitchen, look through the cabinets to find a bottle of vodka; it's not my choice of drink, but I don't care; open the bottle, I can feel the burn against my throat. Every time I drink, I remember my father drinking and smoking in the sorrow of the bastard he's for killing and tearing his family apart. I think about all the things he has done that case me throwing every plate and anything my hands touch because everything I feel or see I destroy like things or people like Rachel. She deserves more than me, who doesn't have family problems as I do.

I grab a vase and throw it on the ground until looking up to see my reflection; I don't see myself in the mirror; I see my father. I know a monster as my hand goes through the mirror cause my hand to bleed and the pain of glass in it. Just a wasteful and useless son of a bitch of a drunk person who didn't care about us after the fire and everything.

"Shit!" I yell again but, it's not the first time my hand is bleeding from something I have done; I pour some liquor over to soothe the pain since I'm a monster.

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An hour later, I'm still in pain and drunk when walking well, falling down in the apartment a couple more times until I hear something; I go downstairs to see what's going. I can't see anything since my vision is quite blurry, and I see someone by the door, so I ran towards the person, slammed the person against a wall with the broken mirror.

"AHHHH!" the person screams; I take a step and notice it's Rachel.

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