I Changed Him

Hearts Of Cheyenne

After the long breakfast, the two head to Malcom. Cheyenne, as always was scared.

"Do you have your gun?" Cheyenne asks, clinging to Sean.

"Girl relax. I got mah fist." Cheyenne laughs and walks the rest of the way with Sean. When they got in the house Rebecca was on the floor again.

"Ma, are you getting into your habits again?" Rebecca didn't answer. Cheyenne looks at the clean house and sees a sticking not me on the island. She read: Sean, I am so sorry. A person had came into our house and robbed your drugs. He told me to write to you and let him rape me.I did. So here's a few things you need to know that I should have told you a long time ago: you had a father and a sister and a brother. Your sister was kidnapped,Nicole and your brother Timothy died from birth. Your father had left after I had you. I'm sorry.

Cheyenne nearly cried.

"Sean, your mama has been raped by a guy." Cheyenne said, reading it over and over again. Sean read it too. Anger filled his eyes. He rushed back to Rebecca.

"Ma, say something! Please!" Sean shook Rebecca's lifeless body. She was gone.

    Sean had no one now. He had no home to live in. He dug in his pocket and pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Cheyenne calls 911 and the ambulance rushes down to the house. After the took her to the hospital it was already to late. Sean sat on the step and kept smoking his cigarette. Cheyenne sat next to him. When she touched him he hit her hand away.

   "Leave me the fuck alone!" Sean yells. He was truly heartless now. He felt the world was white and black. There was no color.

   "Sean, put the cigarette down." Sean didn't listen. So Cheyenne grabbed it herself and threw it.

   "What the fuck?!" Sean yelled in her face.

   "Smoking won't help!" Sean was fighting for another by Cheyenne had it and she smashed it.

   "Stop it! I need those!" Sean fought her.

   "Sean, relax!"

   "I need it!! Please!" Sean fought his tears. When Cheyenne saw a little tear come down his eye he just sat down on the step and banged it. "I hate you! I hate you!" He yelled at the sky, "You took my mother! Why!? Why?!" Cheyenne tried her best to calm him down, but it was no use. "You took everything I fucking had!"

   "Stop, forgive Jesus."  Sean looks at Cheyenne. His face just showed he was done with life. He was done.

   "There ain't no damn Jesus. If there is why ain't he came down and took care of my ass? Fuck him." Cheyenne gasped in shock. She couldn't believe what Sean said. Sean sat down and rocked in his knees.

    "I hate everything!" Sean yells. Cheyenne sits down with him. "I hate..." Sean starts to breakdown in Cheyenne lap. "I hate..." Sean was done. He couldn't take it. He had to let go. He knew he had nothing left. Nobody left.

     Sean cried hard. He has never cried since he was seven when he saw one of his friends kidnapped. But this, this is different. Sean finished and looks at Cheyenne. His eyes were red from crying.

   "Thank you Cheyenne." He wiped his tears and hugged her tight.

   "Just come and live with me." Cheyenne offered. Sean didn't hesitate. He took her offer.

    That night Sean didn't talk. He just stared at the Ceiling of Cheyennes room. They laid in the bed and Cheyenne watched spongebob. When Cheyenne was tired she turned off the tv and laid down. Sean turned to her.

   "Cheyenne, I can't live without my mama." Sean said. Cheyenne sighs.

   "Neither can I. I have no one either. My dad left me and my mom is a full time worker. But it's something you gonna have to get through." They look at each other in the darkness.

   "Cheyenne, you look pretty in the dark." Cheyenne smiles.
  
   "Thanks." Cheyenne faced towards the window and looked at the street lights.

   "Your a good friend." Sean said. "I don't know if I can live with myself knowing I lost everything."  Cheyenne keeps staring out the window.

   "You will. Trust me." Cheyenne said.

   "I hate my life." Sean sighs.

   "Your saying that out of spite. Sometimes, you just need to let go. You die from looking at past or you can die from facing the real world, which is it?"

   "The last one." Sean answers.

   "Right. Don't let your past distract you from what's happening now." Cheyenne closes her eyes and goes to sleep. Leaving Sean thinking. He faces her closest and thinks. He was done. He didn't want to live when he knows he lost everything.

   He turns to Cheyennes side and gets close to her. He wraps his arms around Cheyennes waist and pull her to face him. They were closer than ever. He rested his head on hers and her face is buried in his shirt. He kisses her forehead and falls asleep.