Till Death do us Part

Prologue

A/N: Just a warning that this is unedited! Eventually I will get around to it, but until then, sorry about the mistakes!

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Everything hurt. My head, my back, my legs. I had to close my right eye because blood was blurring my vision, making everything red. I didn't dare move, for fear I would make something worse.

"Evie."

I shifted my good eye toward the raspy voice, feeling my heart break apart in my chest. My mother, in the seat beside me. Seeing her like she was, mangled in the car, I felt my stomach churn. Then again, I couldn't have looked any better.

There was blood everywhere, her arm bent at an awkward angle. A piece of metal protruded from a place I could not see.

"Mom," I managed out, but shortly after I found myself choking on blood, spilling over my lips. Pain lanced through my back and leg, sharp and excruciating.

"I'm not gonna . . . make it . . . out," she gasped, body trembling. I could hear sirens in the distance. I was eyelevel with the embankment we had flipped over, feeling dizzy from all the blood rushing to my head because of being upside down.

I couldn't do anything but display the desperation on my face. I couldn't speak, didn't dare make a movement.

"I love . . . you," she said on a shuddering breath. "Always. Take care . . . of yourself."

Please, no, I thought. Don't leave me, Mom. You can't leave.

I thought this, prayed, even as her eyes began to close and she spoke no more. Even as she stopped moving, and fire trucks and ambulances come to a stop by our overturned car.

She was dead.

I didn't see why I should live, either.