It's Now Or Never: Book Two

New Beginnings...

5 months later...

Monday November 12, 2016

New York City, New York

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Kastynn

"See you all tomorrow." My professor, Doctor Salemi, told us as we gathered all of our belongings and left class.

I was currently in New York City, New York attending New York University to get my Bachelors degree in childhood education.

I love kids, and working with them for the rest of my life would surely be a blessing God will bestow upon me.

Being here for the last five months has opened my eyes to so many different things within the city. I've been to New York countless times, but never have I ever gotten down into the nitty gritty of the city's roots and taken part of its activities.

Leaving my life back home in Atlanta had been a tough one to handle and accustom to, but making new friends here and discovering new highways and alleys to a new life has really made me feel more than welcomed.

I do keep in contact with everyone back home, those who stayed for that matter which would be every single person, including Kori.

I miss them dearly, Lord knows I do. Especially my one special person...Kristopher Jamal Toliver, the love of my life forever and more.

To this very day, he remains in his coma. Not being able to touch or feel anything around him. Not being able to see, laugh, talk, and keep in contact with the emotional drive of life.

I have yearned for the day he would awaken...my Kris would wake up from his drastic coma.

My heart aches as I look down at the beautiful engagement ring on my finger, glistening bright in New York's shiny sunlight as the cold fall breeze brushes past my face.

Being here saddens me sometimes, all because I miss my loves back home.

Not much has changed, from what I have been told. But, more so is changing within me.

I'm not the same Kastynn Brown I used to be. I'm a much more calm Kastynn, a brighter Kastynn who is still calling on the Lord to forgive me of my sins in which I committed months ago.

I haven't mumbled a word to a single soul since the incident, not even to Kapri nor Kiki. I just couldn't care going back to night and relive every single heart wrenching moment I took someone else's life away.

"Yo' Kay!" I hear a familiar voice yell out from behind me.

Before I could make my full three sixty spin, I was attacked ferociously with a huge hug from one of my new friends.

Ti'Ron Spencer....the most craziest guy I have ever met in my entire life. He's a former student at New York's Police Academy, which means that he is older than me...only by three years to be precise. We met in Central Park one day, but it was a terrible run in.

I was jogging aimlessly, listening to music. My eyes had drifted down to my shoes and I noticed one of my shoelaces had come undone, so I bent over carelessly to tie them up.