Supermarket Flowers • Joseph Quinn

Way Back

(TW: Abuse & Suicide, This chapter is a bit heavy so if you don't feel that well you could just skip the chapter<3)

Celia's Pov

Me and Ivy grew up with a loving overworked mom, she was a nurse who worked 12 hours a day with only a couple of hours to rest, and those couple of hours she took us out for ice cream while walking around the park. She was the best mom we could ask for, but she was tired.

We also grew up with the kindest father, a father who would bring clothes to the children's shelter, a father who donated so much to charities especially charities for domestic abuse victims. A father who everyone adored for being an angel sent because he was so kind to the people around him, except his own family.

I will always cherish how our mom protected me and Ivy, how hard she tried to hide what our father was doing to her. He was a functioning alcoholic, he cheated on her left and right, day and night, slapped her around if she didn't do what he wanted or if what she did wasn't enough.

She tried to hide it, but we saw, we always knew.

I'll always love my mother, yeah she wasn't there for most of my school events or Ivy's, she was never there for our birthdays but not once has she made us feel unloved.

She did her best with what she could, with what she had.

She committed suicide when I was 19 and Ivy was 21.

I remember how much our father cried during her funeral, I also remember how Ivy went up to him and whispered how he's a 'dead beat bitch and how nobody will ever love him'.

I loved her even more after that.

All of those moments and experiences definitely turned me into the person I am today, I always made sure I was kind to everybody, especially the people I love, I made sure I always lived everyday without regrets, I always made sure I put myself first and my happiness, and I always made sure to check up on the people around me to make sure they were doing okay.

Those experiences definitely made me stronger and weaker in some aspects, but nothing could have prepared me for the news I got that day.