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The Siren

"This looks like the end of the story, but it isn't"

"This looks like the end of the story, but it isn't"

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• Rogue •

I had never willed myself to do something as much as I was right now
Cowardly holding back, sitting in the damp of the bridge
My thoughts drowned by the traffic beneath me
Lights all blaring together into a fucking mess

My tears dried by the harsh winds

Accompanied only by the whiskey to my left and my gun to my right
The moon shining above me.
Watching me... judging me and yet... comforting me

I had always felt safer in the dark
The suffocating shadows that swallowed your body and hid you from the world
A contrast to the sun. Displaying every unshed tear, the bags under my eyes, the bruises and the scars.

But none of it mattered in the dark. No one can see
And I can let it go...
Cry and drink and think... think of my mother

It's been a week since she was buried
Another week since the bastard who killed her has been walking around free
A week of me willing myself to finally climb up on this bridge.

And here I am.

But I... can't
Why can't I?
Just leave it all and be with my mother
My grandmother
It was all my fault anyway

I sighed, taking another swig
I can't
I need to find him. I need to slit his fucking throat for what he's done to me
To my mother

Then maybe I can come back
And this night would end differently

I stumbled down from my seat, grabbing my gun as i downed the rest of my bottle
I needed to let off some steam

I wasn't even sure how I'd got here
'Whole life ahead of me' they said
'Nothing like my father' they said
What kind of life did they expect me to have?

The abandoned heir to the mafia
No home... no friends... no place to go
Just me
That's all I ever needed anyway

I never had the picture perfect family
I thought I did
Parents madly in love
A little brother. Then a little sister

But things don't always work out
Not when your father is a lying cheating prick.
All the lies, the secrets, the deceit, it blows a family apart

And then there was just me and my mother
And I guess even that couldn't last forever.

I walked into the diner
Ruby's diner
Even though the R was near to dropping off of the sign
I nodded towards Ruby as she sat at the counter, sorting through papers

I headed down to the underground
The comforting smell of food fast replaced with blood, alcohol and sweat
My heels resonated throughout the hallway, slowly drowned out by the cheers of people watching the fights.

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