tainted.

Grief.

Sage's POV

The phone slowly to the ground and hit the ground with a loud crash.

Then I just shut down.  My face goes slack, mouth slightly open, body unmoving, as the color drains from my face. I stare wide-eyed at the street, not knowing what to do. My body just freezes up, and I just couldn't breathe. I try gasping for air but nothing seemed to come in.

Then that shock, that heartbreaking shock begins to melt away, and everything returns slowly.

I bent down and picked up my phone. I swallowed and opened my mouth. Then it snapped shut. I gulped. I take a deep breath and speak.

"Um, okay,"  but it comes out raspy, barely audible. Then I hang up the phone and shove in my pocket. I started to feel light-headed disoriented, while my mind begins buzzing, trying to make sense of what just happened.

My mom is dead.

I walked home in silence, passing house after house. My eyes were dark and blank, unaware on what to do or how to feel. She can't be dead! Its impossible. She was in therapy, she was getting better. How.

Then the tears start falling and I don't even realize. The moment they touched my skin, they couldn't stop. I broke down, on the sidewalk in front of my house. I bury my face into my hands and just cry.

Then that gut feeling comes and it hurts so much! She can't be dead! Oh my god! I couldn't deal with it all.

I couldn't deal with all this pain anymore. I dried my tears, and walked to my room. All this heartbreak, all the screaming, all the loss, I just couldn't!

As I got back home, I walked into the bathroom, and grabbed a bottle of anti-depressants that the doctors had given my mother before she got taken away.

I opened the bottle and poured a bunch of pills into my hand. I stared at them for a minute, just watching them.

It was weird how those tiny things can make it all go away.

I drop one pill into my mouth and swallow

My dad is dead

I put another pill in my mouth

My step-dad abuses me

I popped another pill into my mouth

Connor hates me

I pick up another one and sent it down

Everything is worthless

I put another pill in my mouth

Nobody wants me to stay

I pop the last pill into my mouth and then everything goes numb

The girl I'm in love with, loves another girl

Everything went numb and it all stopped. I collapse, my head hitting the counter top.

And as everything darkens, one thought is branded in my mind, repeating

My mom is dead

BLACK.

((hello, I actually didn't write this chapter, I had an idea in mind but I guess FanDude4Ever or colorles has written a chapter before me so I hope you enjoyed, have a gr8 day bYe))