ERIC'S POV
*FLASHBACK*
*BEEP.....BEEP.....BEEP*
Her crystal blue eyes are closed, laying still. Unmoving. Ever since they called about finding my mom in an old city alley, she hasn't moved... She's been on life support... They found her barely breathing... The doctors said that she had been raped, and beaten.. Cuts and bruises, burns and scars... They covered her whole body.. They had left her there to die... I stared at my mothers lifeless body, holding in the tears.
All I wanted to do was run into her room and scream. Scream for her to wake up. Scream for her not to die. I couldn't take seeing her like that... All cold and pale... Lifeless... So... Dead like... I banged a fist against the glass and cried..
"Mom! Mom wake up! Don't die momma please!" She didn't move.. Her chest quit rising and falling... The moniter raced... Beep after beep after beep... Those were my last cries before my mother left this world... That was the last day I ever stepped foot in a church... I swore I would never go in one again... Ever...
*A Week Later*
Walking down that long concrete strip I took a seat where my name had been taped to the black seat in front of my moms casket... I cried and hid my face in my hands when a pair of hands wrapped themselves around my shoulders pulling me close to comfort me... I looked up and saw Jake... My best friend... My true love... The only reason I'm still alive...
God... Why did you take my mom away from me? Why can't Jake realized I'm in love with him? What am I so afraid of that's keeping me from telling him? That he won't love me back? That he be my best friend anymore? What?! Why can't I just tell him that I've been in love with him forever?! Why?!
*END OF FLASHBACK*
I was running... Running down a dark alley, hearing screams... Hearing someone call out to my mother..
"MAGGIE! MAGGIE! MAGGIE COME OUT HERE YOU LITTLE BITCH! I KNOW YOU'RE OUT HERE! COME HERE GODDAMNIT!"
"No! Please don't hurt me! I have a son to take care of! Please!"
"Come on baby, I just wanna talk."
"NO!"
"FINE BITCH! I will find you and fucking kill your ass!"
"No, please!!"
"Too late!" I saw him grab her by her hair and yank her out of the shadowy spot she was hiding..
He slapped her and shoved her too the ground leaning on top of her.
"GET OFF!" She yelled.
He slapped her again... Only harder...
"Shut up!" He yanked his jeans off... All I could do was stand in horror... Not able to move a muscle.... Barely able to breathe... As he raped my mom... She tried to run... Thats when he punched her and took out the blade.. She tried to leave... He stabbed her. Cutting her cheek... Then her arms... He punched her.. I watched as she stopped struggling... Stopped breathing... Her eyes closed... He left... I watched how frantic the doctors on the ambulance where as they took her... I cried my mothers name one last time...
"Maggie.."
"Honey, I'm over here." I turned around to face none other than my mom...
"Mom?!"
"Yes baby, it's me... I'm in a better place... No one can hurt me here... I love you." She smiled and her figure faded away...
"MOM! COME BACK! MOM!" I was jereked awake..
"Mom?"
"No babe... It's just me... Jake.." I sighed and curled into Jakes arms as he patted my back..
"I miss her so much Jake.. I have these nightmares sometimes where she's being raped... And killed... He just leaves her there... The ambulance comes.. But they're too late... She talks to me Jake... She tells me she's in a better place... That no one can hurt her there.. And then she gone... Forever... All over again..."
"Shhhh baby, shh." Jake rocks me back and forth trying to comfort me. Holding me tightly while I cry into his shoulders...
