How To Save A Life

A Million Reasons to Cry

Trigger warning: Depression, cutting

Skye >POV<

I woke up in my bed the next morning curled up under the covers.

I sighed with content as I sank deeper into the covers.

My calm morning was interrupted by my phone ringing... again.

I got out of bed and picked up my phone.

It was an unknown caller ID.

"Hello?" I asked into the phone.

"Hello, is this Skye Etkins?"

"Yes?" I more questioned than said.

"You are the only family Cash has that was referenced. She got in a terrible car crash. She wasn't paying attention to the road. Bystanders say she was looking at the sky as she was driving. She broke her rib, fractured her skull, and much more. We tried to save her but failed. I'm sorry for your loss," the person on the other side of the phone said.

I sat in shock.

C-cash?

"Hello?" The person in the phone said.

"Oh-uh. Sorry. Um, thanks for uh- telling me, I guess." I said as I hung up the phone.

I laid in shock.

Why?

Why me?

Now Chandler and Cash are gone.

Cash is gone cause she was.. talking to Chandler.

I stood out of bed and then collapsed onto the floor, crying.

I was crying my eyes out.

Why me?

I finally gained my balance and stood up, looking around the room.

I looked above my desk and read the quote.

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life- to be happy- it's all that matters" ~Audrey Hepburn.

What if I don't have a reason to be happy?

What if I can't be happy?

"I can't," I whispered.

I turned around and looked above my bed, reading the other quote.

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile" ~Unknown.

I tried to follow what the quote said.

What's a reason I have to smile?

I thought about this for a few minutes until I realized, I have no reasons to smile.

There is no reason to smile.

There's no point to life if you don't have any reasons. Then life is just a bunch of reasons to cry.

Which, makes life, have no point.

There's no point to life if all you have is a million reasons to cry.

"I can't show life!" I screamed at the quote, "I can't show life I have reasons if I don't! There's no point!"

I fell onto the ground, sobbing.

I then realized what I was saying.

There's no point in life.

I can't enjoy my life if I have no reasons to smile.