An Angel got me Suffocating ~Kellic~

Chapter 21 (Finale)

*Time skip, one week before custody hearing*

Kellin's POV

"What the hell am I going to do ly?" I sobbed into her shoulder. The hearing to determine if I would be allowed to keep Brooke was one week away, and I'd failed. I'd gone through my mental health assesments, and therpy. I'd had a small slip up at the start. I was so upset and overwhelmed I couldn't sleep for days and I grew weak. However, since I'd made a big improvement. My doctor and theripist where happy...I could only pray the judge wouldn't hold my minor step back against me. But the part I had failed in and I knew would cause me to loose Brooke...I couldn't find a bigger apartment. I'd looked every single day, searching on the net, rummaging through papers, going into local estate agents, but I'd come up with nothing.

It was physically impossible for me to be able to afford a two bed place on my salary. I'd even tried getting a better paid job, and I almost landed one...until I told them I was adopting soon so I could only work certain hours. I was turned away in an instant saying they needed someone who could be flexible and work the hours they wanted me too. I knew it was all over for me, with my set back, and not having found anywhere else to live, Brooke was going to be taken from me. She was going to be tossed into care and I would probably never see her again. And it was all my fault, I failed her.

"Shhh kels, it's going to be okay. We still have a week, and he said as long as your in the process you're okay, you never know, something may turn up." She soothed, stoking my hair.

"It won't ly, this is me, this is my life. Nothing ever works out for me, life just likes to take massive dumps on me at every corner and screw everything up. Life refuses to let me be happy, and now life is taking it out on that poor innocent girl! What did she ever do to deserve this ly? She's three! How is that fair? She doesn't deserve this, a-and I had a chance to give her a g-good life...a-and I failed her."

"Woah, no! No you did not! You've cared for her from the moment you've met her. You've always been a father too her, look at how much you've done for her over the years! You've been there for her, clothed her, fed her, played with her, taken her to the zoo, to the park. You've dried her tears, kissed her bruises, bumps and cuts whenever she's fallen. You've held her when she's been scared, you've laughed with her, cried with her...everything. Not only that look at you now kels, you've changed! You've been clean for what just under four months, you've been holding your shit together so much better then before. You've been fighting, for her, and for yourself. You haven't failed her Kellin, you've shown her what real love and compassion is, you've shown her to never go down without a fight. So come on, let's not go down now, let's not give up hope, not yet."

I sniffed, drying my eyes. "Y-You're right, I-I can't give up, not yet."

"That's my bestie." She grinned kissing my cheek.

"We're back!" My grandparents called as they walked in the door, Brooke instantly running onto my lap and cuddling me. God I loved her cuddles, innocent baby cuddles, they where the best kind.

"Kellin! Kellin! Guess where we went!" She jumped up and down on my lap excited.

"Where did you go baby?"

"We went somewhere special...a-and we have a suprise for you!"