Like a Grape (Shidge AU) [Book 1]

Chapter Eight

**Warning: Suicidal content. If you are sensitive to that stuff, skip to the bold plus signs.**

Colleen's alarm blared, telling her it was time to wake up. Every day was a dread for. She threw her hand onto the alarm clock, turned it off, and sat up.

She turned her head as she checked the time. 6:00 am. Ever since her husband disappeared, she had had to work at a retail that controls her hours. Today, she was working an early morning shift.

She looked right under the time, as it read, "April 3rd, 2037."

A small, painful smile fell upon her face as she said with tears forming in her eyes. She grabbed a small photo by her bedside, and looked at it.

It was Katie, Matt, and Shiro.

"Happy Birthday, my little babies." She whispered as the tears wouldn't stop flowing down her face.

She threw the covers over, and slowly walked out of bed, and walked to the tiny Kitchen in her apartment.

She lived in an apartment alone, since she couldn't afford living the house her family once lived.

She pulled out a bowl, and grabbed a box of Cherrios. She placed the box on the counter as she collapsed onto her knees due to the amount of pain she felt inside.

She placed her hands over her face as she sobbed.

"Now back at you Jim," One of the reporter said on the TV.

"In Alabano, Texas, a group of three male teens were supposedly kidnapped from the Garrison Flight and Astronomy Academy. All three boys, went missing the night of when an asteroid crashed near by."

Than the TV displayed three school photos. "The first one being Lance McClain, in the middle Hunk Anderson (His full name wasn't revealed yet, so Anderson it is.), and than on the right Pidge Gunderson." The TV reporter said.

Colleen couldn't believe her eyes, that Pidge Gunderson, was her daughter without a shout of a doubt. Her daughter, was presumably kidnapped. Tears fell out of her eye's as she had lost every single member of her family.

"Why did you take them from me?" She sobbed. "Why did you leave me alone here in this dark world without the the lights of my life?"

She had lost her family for more than a year, and she couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't take the pain. She couldn't take the constant reminder that she has no one there for here.

She curled up in featle position as she sobbed for what felt like forever. She cried until she fell asleep again.

She woke up again, still in the same position around nine am. She was late.

She slowly got back up, and stared at her kitchen counter. She saw her knifes just sitting there. Than a thought came in to her head: All the pain can go away if she wanted it to.

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Shiro called the other Paladins do see if they were awake. Luckily, he heard the sleepy voice of Caran. "Yeah? Hello?"

"Caran! I need you to prepare two healing pods." Shiro said as he was approaching the castle.

"Shiro, where did you go?" Caran asked.

"No time for that, right now I need you to prepare two healing pods!"

"On it, Shiro." Caran said as he yawned.

Shiro landed his lion as he held, Pidge in his arms while Matt walked close.

"You found Pidge!" Caran said excitedly as he saw Matt walking next to Shiro, but than he noticed the fail body in Shiro's arms. "Wait a tick! Why is there two Pidges? And why does one look like you?"