It's okay.

Chapter 23

Earlier that day Alex had woken up on his couch. He looked over but then remembered that Vanny had left late last night or I guess early that morning it was around 4:00 am when he woke up. He had turned on the tv and saw some crazy stuff going on in the world- he hated the news. He turned it off. Then the front door opened and closed. "Hey honey!" His mom said as she sat down her bag at the front door. "How was your night?" His mom asked as she walked over to him and sat down on the couch." Alex looked at her. "It was great." Alex didn't think he was gonna be able to say that. Because just a few hours ago Alex was on his bedroom floor with a knife to his skin wanting for it all to be over. But then Vanny came and completely turned the night around. He would've been gone without her. She might not know it but she is his reason for living and as much as she might hate herself...to him she is perfect. "Yeah....it acctually was great." Alex's mom started crying. Alex hadn't seen her cry since his dad had passed he had guessed that she just bottled her emotions up because it hurt to much. but here she was letting it out. "Mom? Mom what's wrong?" He said as he pulled her into a hug. "No honey, no I'm fine. It's just your acctually happy." She said through her tears. Alex had been giving her a lot of "I'm fines" and "I'm good" but his mom could always tell if he really was "good" and she knew that he hadn't been "good" for a long time. But tonight he really was. "I love you." Alex said as he held his mom. "I love you too." She said through a few more tears. Alex hadn't thought about how hard it would've been on his mom if he had decided to...do something to himself. Vanny had not just saved Alex she had saved his mom to. Alex ate breakfast and put on some clothes and decided to go on a walk. Around 6:00 he heard gun shots coming from down the block then he heard screams. It scared him for a second but for some reason he started running towards them. He heard ambulances coming so whatever was happening he knew he couldn't help but at least they could. He heard one last gun shot and at this point he was two houses away from vannys dads and he heard exactly where it came from so he started racing towards the house. So many scenarios went through his head of what could've happened but he told himself it was fine. Once he got to the house he ran up to the door seeing it was already open he just ran right through the house. And that's when he saw the two dead bodies and the broken Vanny laying on the blood stained grass.

"Let's take her through here!" One nurse said to the head doctor. They were strolling Vanny trough the hospital in a stretcher.