Jaki

Let's Start With This...

Meeting her was an accident, but I'm glad it happened. But sometimes at night when it's just me and my thoughts I wish that I had never met her. Because I fell in love with her and every lie that she spoke to me was the truth. And at night when it's just me and my thoughts I can almost feel her fingers grazing across my cheek. Or even see her smile so vividly, like she was right before me. But she isn't...Ever since she showed up in town....everything changed and nothing ever changes here....until her...and sometimes change isn't always such a good thing...maybe sometimes it's what we need...

So, yeah, let's start with that. Let's start with me explaining why everything is as shitty as it is now. My dad left my mom the minute I was born, so it was always been just me and her. I was never really the most popular guy in school, but I had some really cool friends, I had my entire life planned out ahead of me, I was going to graduate from high school and leave this town and go to Chicago's Illinois Institute of Art...So why the hell did everything change?

Because I got drunk...

One lovely day, Leona invited me to her party. I've never been invited to a party that wasn't full of my film geek friends talking about the next Sunset Film Festival that we would never be able to go to.

Leona was one of the most popular girls in school, but she was a nice type of popular, and her boyfriend was the lead singer of the town band The Gypsy Nomads.

I accepted the invitation, went got drunk and had a great time. Until the cops came and broke up the party and my mom came and got me out of jail.

Suddenly a car came speeding towards us...

Knocking my mothers head through the windshield as she used her arm to push me back against the seat for my safety.

I saw an angel take my mother away.

Lights surrounding her, refracting from the diamonds falling through the sky. The angel looked at me with big brown eyes and I stared back, mesmerized by her.

"Please," I said. "Don't take her away."