The next afternoon found Tessa rolling her shoulders to release
some tension as she skated through her warm-up, trying not
to regret her words to Micah the day before. Oh, not that he'd
treated her poorly, but he had backed off, asking her a few po-
lite questions about the bleakest time in her life before getting
up and taking her hand as they made their way back to Randi's
house.
He'd left soon after they'd arrived.
Now, she could feel him watching her as she skated,
and he'd been unusually quiet since he'd picked her up this
morning.
What did I expect? Did I think he was going to understand
why I wanted to off myself? Hell, sometimes I don't even un-
derstand it now. But back then, her desperation had been all
too real.
After her mother had died, she'd been so alone, feeling so
damn worthless that she hadn't wanted to live anymore. She'd
shared with Micah how she'd put together a cocktail of med-
actions that she'd been pretty certain would kill her, mainly
from a stock she'd had left of her mother's pain and sleeping
pills. She'd been ready to go to sleep and never wake up, let
the dark pit she'd sunk into taking her awake.
The only thing that had stopped her at the last minute
was Liam. She couldn't leave him all alone. and she knew he'd
blame himself for the rest of his life if she ended her own. She
had been selfish, ready to ease her own pain at the expense of
her only living close relative.
At the last minute, she'd dumped all of the pills in the toilet
and flushed them down the pipes, unwilling to end her pain by
causing more for Liam.
Tessa had experienced episodes of depression since her
hearing loss, but she'd found herself in her darkest days after
her parents were both gone, leaving her alone in a hearing
world when she had none. Isolated and feeling separated from
the rest of the world she'd had to battle her way out of the
darkness and back into the light. She'd finally escaped after
Liam had come home and she'd reached out for counseling.
Tessa had never talked about her near-death experience to
anyone. How she'd gotten to the point of no return she couldn't
fathom now but she'd been there, ready to take her own life
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