The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter VII: Chatting With Autumn.

Summer:

Date: July 7, 2020.

Independence Day once again and as always, I visited my father's grave that day to chat with and update on what was going on as of recently from last month to the current month that we were in and what was going on our lives throughout during those months. After I finished talking to him that day, I went back home, promising that I would return whenever I had the chance.
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I went home that day ready to spend it with Kyle and do what we would normally do if we had people over on that day, but since we were still under a lockdown, we couldn't invite anybody over on that day, so we would just have the spend it with just the two of us and just chat with our relatives online to "Prevent further spread of the virus" like that was really going to do anything knowing that everyone else was doing it anyway since they forgot about the fact we were even under a lockdown just for the hell of it.

Some time later that afternoon, I heard my phone ringing. I looked to see that it was Autumn calling me and of course I had to answer and so I picked up the phone and said: "Hey, Autumn. What's up?"

Autumn (On the other end): "Hey, Summer. Nothing much, just wanted to check on you and see how you're doing is all."

Summer: "I'm doing well. How about you? How have you been since you got out of the hospital?"

Autumn (On the other end): "I've been doing good though I feel slightly tired half of the time. But other than that, I'm doing good. What about you?"

Summer: "I'm doing good for the most part. I'm glad to hear that you're doing well."

"..."

Summer: "So... you uhh, wanna talk for a little bit? It's been some time."

Autumn (On the other end): "Sure. What do you want to talk about?"

Summer: "Just standard stuff and just whatever is our minds."

Autumn (On the other end): "All right. Do you wanna go first or do you want me to go first? I mean, it doesn't really matter who wants to go first at this point as long as we start up a conversation."

Summer: "I'll go first if you want."

Autumn (On the other end): "Sure, go right ahead."

Summer: "Well, I'm just gonna be flatout honest with you right now about how I felt when you landed in the hospital almost one month ago. Ever since the beginning of the whole ordeal of you being in the hospital for almost the entire month of June, it just worsened my stress levels to the point it felt like a part of my soul wanted to die because of what was going on and I believed that the only way to get my mind off of the situation was to just drink my stress away until I couldn't collect a single bit of common sense and just do things against my own will without second thought. I was just, worried out of my mind about what was going to happen to you while you were in the hospital. And not to mention that the so-called doctor happened to be our family rival who showed his true colors to us worsened my stress and anxiety and learning that he wanted to take all of one of our family businesses by force just added more fuel to the fire along with even more stress than before. The truth is, Autumn, I worsened my own anxiety and depression because I was so worried about you and didn't know when you were going to recover and I went as far as blaming God for what was going on, even though none of it was his fault to even start with. I was wrong for doing such a thing and I knew that I was wrong about doing it; in fact, even Amethyst said that I needed to grow closer to the him and she's right; I do need to grow closer to God and follow down the righteous path."

Autumn (On the other end): "Well, I'm all right now, Summer, and all that happened last month is now all in the past and it's best to just leave it behind while we can. I'm okay now and Zachary has been charged with Occupation Fraud and is a registered sex offender and has already lost his job because of it."