New World (My Hero Academy)

comfort

(Layla's Pov)

Darkness......the comfort I get when it consumes me should not be normal. I welcome it in like a family member you haven't see in year. That Awkard moment of time before you feel at easy. That warmth you feel, the love. Even just for that moment everything feels ok, I would give anything to have that feeling again. That feel of being secured, safe, loved. at last, I cannot have that, I used to have that. Every time I would come home running to the fields to see dad their work on the crops and when he would see me, he would ingulf me in the warmest hug, filled with love. 

But slowly the darkness turns. the warm feeling of the darkness turns cold, becomes anything but a euphoric feeling. It becomes your worst nightmare, fear and memory.  Some that can be so great can turn dark within a matter of a second. 

And every time I close my eyes that's what happens. That Horrible memory comes back to me. Don't get me wrong, every now and then I would get a memory that you would trade mothing for. The memory's that you hold closest to your heart. But this time it was not one of those memories.

The sounds of beeping and machines could be heard, white wall everywhere you look, a depressing atmosphere. "It's ok sweetheart" Dad was trying to cheer me up, but it wasn't working. Dad had been sick for a while, but he didn't get treatment. We knew all too well that chemo treatment it not nice, nan had it. We watched her slowly die; the chemo helps but it was also killing her. Dad didn't want to do that; he didn't want the last months he had sick. 

I could barely speak, putting on the most 'I'm fine face', I spoke in barely a whisper "I love you dad". "I love you so much more." responding with a sad smile he looked at me with loving eyes, that soon turned into a sad smile "I'm going to leave soon, I love you so much my beautiful girl. Remember I'll always love you."

 Now with tears in my eyes. I could see how much pain he was in, it pained me so much, but I couldn't help him, "Its ok, you can rest" my voice cracking at the end. "Oh sweetheart, I'm sorry." tears filled his eyes as he kissed the top of my hear, "I'll always be there with you."  

Placing his wedding ring on in my hand and a necklace that said something we always said. With his last breath, he said it, "I love you to the moon and back." 

His arms went limp, the heart monitor flatlined. In a whisper "It's ok...... It's ok, someday I'll see you again. " I couldn't hold back my tears. In a quiet sob "I love you to the moon and back." 

That was the last day I saw dad, the last day of being treated right. I was the only one at the funeral, dad had no living relatives, no siblings nothing. he had me and our family, but they only came for 20 minuets. I had only just convinced mum to pay for the funeral. I get him cremated as of his wishes, and spread his ashes with nan and pop, his parents and he wished. 

when I got back home, I was told that I was pulled out of school and was put to work on the fields. Thats became my life, no family, no friends, not school, nothing. I keep the wedding ring and necklace with me every day, the ring would get in the way every now and then so I but it on the necklace so I could wear it every day, never taking it off.