Chapter 8: Spot P.O.V. From the ground up

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                                                                      {Warnings: Suicidal}

And with that Race dashed off towards Manhattan.

Spot didn't understand, then again he didn't understand a lot of things. He didn't understand how a guy can like another guy, he didn't understand how he can put a sharp blade into his skin and it feels good, but what he really didn't understand is life.

He sat back on the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge, feet dangling off the side. He thought about that shooting star. I wonder if shooting stars really do make dreams come true. Spot leaned his head on a pole and started thinking about his family. How much he missed em except his father. Spot started to think about his mom. Spot looked up to the stars and said "What do I'se do Mama?" "I'se tryin real hard ta keep it tagetha, but it feels like da world is crushin me." "Soon I'se will be with ya again Mama." Spot looked across the water. He then started softly singing a song his Mom would sing to him.

"Grandma and grandpa painted a picture of sixty-five years"
"And one little house"
"More than a memory"
"More than saying I do"
"Kiss you goodnight's and I love you's""Me and you baby, walk in the footsteps"
"Build our own family"
"One day at a time"
"Ten little toes, a painted pink room"
"Our beautiful baby looks just like you""And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"Now 'til forever it's all of me, all of you"
"Just take my hand"
"And I'll be the man your dad hoped that I'd be""And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"For worse or for better"
"And I will be all you need"
"Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad"
"We'll give all that we have"
"And we'll build this love from the ground up""This life will go by"
"In the blink of an eye"
"But I wouldn't wanna spend it without you by my side"
"The cloud are gonna roll"
"The earth's gonna shake"
"But I'll be your shelter through the wind and the rain""And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"Now 'til forever it's all of me, all of you"
"Just take my hand"
"And I'll be the man your dad hoped that I'd be""And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"For worse or for better"
"And I will be all you need"
"Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad"
"We'll give all that we have"
"And we'll build this love from the ground up""Someday we'll wake up"
"With thousands of pictures"
"Sixty-five years in this little house"
"I won't trade for nothing, the life that we built"
"I'll kiss you goodnight and say I love you still""And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"For worse or for better"
"And I will be all you need"
"Beside you I'll stand through the good and the bad"
"We'll give all that we have"
"And we'll build this love from the ground up"
"From the ground up"


After Spot finished the song he started crying, he couldn't hold it in anymore. It's not like anyone was watching him, or so he thought. He looked up to the night sky again and said "Mama I can't do it anymore, I give up." Spot stood up and said "Goodbye Brooklyn, goodbye Newsies, goodbye Racetrack, goodbye world." And with that Spot jumped, he jumped of the edge off the Brooklyn bridge. The last thing he heard was "SPOT NO!!!!!!!" The last thing he heard was Ace and Hotshot. 

His last thought before hitting the water was I'm on my way Mama.

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