The Day We Met

Chapter One

[Ashley POV]

Bright light surrounded me as I opened my eyes.

"Where am I? What's going on? Where is everyone? Ouch. Why can't I see anything? Oh..." Suddenly a figure appeared in front of me. After my eyes finally adjusted themselves, I stood there speechless and couldn't find the right words to say, but one single word.

"Mom..."

She was standing not too far away, smiling at me while holding her arms out wide open. She was wearing long, white dress with really pretty white sandals. Her long hair flowed as if there was wind pushing it around. I couldn't remember the last time I saw her with long hair. She was always so beautiful in my eyes.

I remember smiling back at her while tears slowly fell down my face. I tried to run to her, but it seemed as if something was holding me back and it felt as if I was just running in place. All of a sudden, the bright light starts getting brighter once again.

"Oh no.. Mom! Don't leave me!" I shouted out to her. As the light became brighter, I saw her mouth moving as if she was trying to tell me something. Before it got to bright, I read something that she was mouthing to me and it seemed as if I heard her say it loud and clear.

"I love you."

I gasped and was breathing hard as I suddenly woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. I looked down and realized that it was already 6:00am. "Another dream followed by waking crying again, huh?" I told myself as I wiped the tears away from my face.

My name is Ashley Chang. I was 19 years old and 2nd year college student. One can say that my life hasn't been the best lately. Yes, I know everyone has those moments in their life where they feel like nothing goes right, but for me not even close. I feel that every single day of my life.

It all started about two years ago. First of all, my boyfriend at the time, broke up with me because he claimed that he stopped loving me. What a jerk, right? We've been together for about a year and a half and then he suddenly stops having feelings for me? That's not even the worst thing that could have happened to me though. Later on that same month, I lost my mom in December 2015 due to cancer. She has been battling cancer since 2011. She was the bravest person I knew. Not only was she brave, but she was many other things. Smart, funny, beautiful, amazing, kind heart and even more no one could imagine. There's absolutely no one that could ever replace her. She was the most important and special person in my life. Then just like that, she disappeared from my life.

Other than my mom, I have three other family members. My dad, along with my younger sister, Emma, and my younger brother Christian as well. It was a really big hit for everyone, but we got through it. All except me... I still cry about the asshole that broke my heart and the fact that I lost the most wonderful person in my life. I never found a real reason to start smiling again so I never usually show emotion anymore. I just never really got over those things yet.

How exactly can I? I wished I knew that answer.

I got out of bed and opened the curtains of my room to let the sun shine through my apartment. After everything settled down with my family and my sister got her driver's license, I moved to Korea. I needed to make sure my family was going to be okay if I left them alone. Why also would I choose Korea? No specific reason. It was just to get away from everything and try to start a new and move on, but I haven't had any luck. I was just living a normal, slow life.

My usual morning routine was simple. Get up, do my usual morning stuff like brush my hair and teeth, make my bed, and you know, stuff like that. I had finished getting ready and was in the middle of making myself breakfast. I lived in an apartment by myself and never had anyone close to me in Korea. As I was making my breakfast, I started to sing a song called "So Sick" by Ne-yo. Everything I did these days either made me think about "that jerk" (that's what I called him) and my mom. It was a bad thing, I know, but I couldn't help it.

After my morning routine, I cleaned up and then continued my morning with a run. Ever since everything happened, I started to go running every single morning. It really helped me just clear my mind and forget things for a short time.

During my run, I go to this park near my house and I just sit there and listen to music. I always wondered what my life would be like if none of this ever happened. Loosing the two most valuable people in my life. No one would ever understand me and why I am like this? I wished somedays though that maybe someday, I'll meet someone who wants to understand me and help me through this.

"Hmm.. when would that happen? Probably never." I thought to myself as I got up and headed back to start the day officially.

Another same old, same old day...

{To be continued...}

Hope you guys enjoyed the first part! I'll try and post chapters as quickly as I can. No promises though, okay? :) Thank you so much everyone! Love you guys! <3

- T