When the sky cries with me

When the sky cries

I shut my eyes as the soft rain gently caressed my reddened cheeks. The roar of the rainstorm was much like that of my own heart. My name was Delilah Wilson. I was the orphan girl in the small town of Braxton Valley. I looked different than most, I had long dark brown hair, tanned skin, and my eyes were a bright strawberry red. The doctors said my eyes weren't natural, I was some sort of freak of nature, and that I would have to take special eye drops to prevent sight damage. My parents had died in a tragic accident and I was sent to live with my single, and quite lonely, Aunt Serene. The other kids my age, at the time, didn't understand my eyes and were afraid of me. Over the years, they grew to understand and, come high school, I had quite a few friends. there were a lot of bullies too though. Behind my back their words curled around my neck likes snakes. The only people in town who didn't talk about me behind my back was Aunt Serene and my three closest friends. There were people who were openly mean too, they would come by the diner I worked at and throw food or trash at me. It was always when nobody was looking, so nobody noticed. And now, I stood at the edge of a cliff just off the outskirts of town. I had just gotten away from Timmy Miller and his snobby ass girlfriend Jessica Peyton. That day, they beat me more than usual. The bruises on my arms blackened quickly and the blood stained my shirt. I didn't care how they treated me, or what they did, I just wanted to cry. I wished there was a way that I could leave, just disappear, erase myself from that hell of a town. That hell of a world. It wasn't my fault I came out wrong, that's what my parents told me when I was just four years old. Even they despised my appearance. As I thought harder, the tears welled in my eyes once again. I was the reason my parents were gone, the reason my Aunt had to work so hard each day, the reason why the teachers always got on to other students. I was living in such a sheltered world, made of twigs and wet leaves, I was sheltered and it was all in vain. Nobody cared if there were people to protect me, because the ones attacking me were high in numbers. Because of this I ran as far as the outskirts of town without telling Aunt Serene, she was probably worried. I didn't want to care, I didn't want to keep bearing so much weight. I didn't want to keep going, but I couldn't stop. If I had flown away, what would happen to Aunt Serene? I was all she had left to remember her little sister by, I was her only other family. All we had was each other. It would have been so selfish of me to leave her like that. So, I sat at the edge of that cliff and cried. I screamed in agony of my splitting mind and heart. The sky cried with me. The rains cold embrace felt like home. The smell of the mossy weather comforted me. Like someone was there, telling me that I wasn't alone, that I could make it, and they would be right by my side. Every step of the way. One of the broken pieces of my heart fell back into place that day, the day the sky cried with me. After that, the rain cleared and I went home. I hopped on my bike, beaten and damaged from my run ins with bullies, and rode the long, solemn, rode back into town. The town looked dead as I passed the diner and shops, even the library looked abandoned. The neighborhood was silent as I rode into my driveway, the only sound to be heard was Aunt Serenes angry voice, I paused at the screen door and eve's dropped,
"What on earth was your kid thinking!" She exclaimed,
Jessica Peyton's mom was sitting on the couch with a batch of fresh cookies, "I don't know," she said, "That's why I've come to make it up to Delilah, to apologize for my daughters rude behavior," she stuttered,
"Rude behavior? She beat my poor girl half to death with a fucking baseball bat!" Aunt Serene was screaming now, "and now I can't find her anywhere! What if she's gone and jumped off a bridge or some shit like that!" She began to tear up,
"Then the town would help you, the money isn't so much as a problem anymore so-" Mr.s Peyton stopped,
"Shut up." Aunt Serene glared at her. I opened the screen door with a blank face,
"Oh my god!" Aunt Serene cried as she brought me into a tight embrace, "where on earth have you been?" She asked,
"I went to the cliff to clear my mind," I said as I gave her a sheepish smile, "what were you two talking about just now?" I was eager to know more about this money situation, I wanted to help Aunt Serene,
"Mr.s Peyton here brought you some cookies to apologize for what Jessica did to you," Aunt Serene said through a fake ass smile, "but what matters right now is your health, we should get you to the doctor immediately," she sighed, hastily trying to get out the door.