"You don't even care that I'm crying.!" My mother sobbed out.
"I would ask you but nobody died." My step dad scoffed back.
"Yes somebody did, MY SON!" She cried out louder.
October 27 at 1:11am was the day my mothers son Cruz was born a still born.
I was physically and mentally tired of hearing them argue. He kept blaming her for ruining his life. I was sick of seeing my mother cry I was tired of it all.
I sat in my room that night contemplating things over and over again in my head as the muffled voices of their screaming filled the house. I looked over to see my phone vibrating, it was my friend Maribel calling me over to go to a kickback with a few friends from school. "Yeah sure, I'll meet you guys over there in a few." I hung up and got dressed in my black skinnies and a Of Mice and Men tank with my black vans. I grabbed my keys and headed out to my car. I drove there listening to Youth by Daughter. As I arrived the house was poppin strobe lights and disco lights flashed through the windows, and the music was heard from a block away. "Hey Kinky!" My friends said as they ran over to hug me. "Hey guys!" Kinky is my nickname because I am very perverted. My ex was there which made me want to drink more than I already expected to. "Are you okay?" My friend Brianna slurred as she put her hands on my chest. "My mom and step dad are fighting again." I started walking into the house grabbing a beer on my way in. The time flew by. Soon it was almost 4am and I was wasted drunk. I said goodbye to my friends and got into my car. I'm actually a pretty good driver when I'm drunk.
I got home at about 4:30am. As I stumbled through the front door I could still hear them screaming and I could also hear my mother crying. Without thinking I ran upstairs and grabbed my mother cause I could hear him getting violent. "Put her the fuck down Daniel!" He screamed at me and started running towards me. "Mom I want you to run okay." I whispered in her ear and set her down and she ran downstairs. "What the fuck dude! Why do you do this to her?" I hollered at him, now he's running towards me. "You wanna be a big boy and stick up for your mom? Be a man then." He swings his fist at me and hits me in the face, I'm very angry at this point. I feel the blood flowing out of my nose and all these things are running through my mind, he's in the cross hairs of my eye sight, I run towards him and swing at him and after that I lose complete control of everything, it's like I blanked out, I'm on top of him just decking him in the face multiple times. He's unconscious, laid out on the floor, blood all over his face. "Mom! Get up here and pack your shit! We're leaving." My mom runs up crying and starts packing her stuff. I go into my room and pack all I have quickly, I go into my closet and open the door in the wall I made a while back and grab my guns and put them into my suitcase and I put the bigger ones in big duffle bags. I grab all my other belongings and so does my mom, we get in my car and we head off to our old home in upstate New York. During the 40 minute drive my mom cries the whole way.
That night I set up the house as my mom slept, I knew she was exhausted and probably depressed. It was about 8 in the morning when I finally crashed in my room to be woken up at about 4 in the afternoon by a message on Facebook. It wasn't important, so I got up and showered and changed into faded blue jeans and a tribal sweater and my white vans. I walked downstairs and my mom was sitting at the kitchen table on her phone talking to my aunt in Mexico. "I'm going to the store to pick up some groceries ama, I'll be back soon. I love you." I gave her a kiss on the head grabbed my keys and headed over to Walmart. I picked up stuff to make dinner each night and frozen foods and all that good stuff. Later on in the day I decided I wanted to go to the mall, so I did. I shopped around for a bit then something caught my attention. Vanessa Heras, I've liked her since grade school but we never really talked unless we bumped into each other at school or something. She was walking my way and she was alone as was I. "Hey Vanessa, what brings you here alone?" I asked her once she was close enough so she could hear me. "Oh, uh, hi Daniel! I was just here looking for a dress for homecoming. What about you? I don't see any of your friends with you either." Her voice was just perfect, as was her smile and the way she looked at me when she talked. "Just looking for a suit, I don't have a date yet, but you never know. Do you think we could spend the rest of the day shopping together?" I asked her, not sure of what she would say.
Vanessa's P.O.V
"Uh, yea sure! Why not?" I said awkwardly. Not knowing Daniel very well, i was in a awkward position. Daniel was decent looking. He seemed like a real chill and nice guy, from my perspective. As we walked to several stores I didn't want to be unmannerly. So I would ask questions here & there. "So, Daniel? Who do you think you're going to ask for homecoming?" I asked, looking away. "Well, I've liked this girl for a really long time and I was going to ask her but I'm not sure if she has a boyfriend or a date already, or if she even likes me. What about you short stuff?" He said. "Haha, well maybe you should ask her? I mean come on you're pretty cute. She probably likes you back, even! Oh and no I don't have a date yet, you know? Just waiting. I want to have fun. I mean, I don't like to date because of what I've gone through. I don't trust guys now."
Daniel's P.O.V
"Thanks. I'm pretty sure a guy will ask you too." I get kinda upset when she tells me she doesn't trust guys anymore. Just thinking a guy hurt her that bad makes me upset. I would never hurt her that way, ever. "Can you help me pick out a necklace for the girl I'm going to ask? You know guys aren't good with that kind of stuff." I ask her with a cute chuckle. "Sure." She replies with a smile and a small laugh. We go into this jewelry store and I let her look around for a necklace that catches her attention, because yes, I am planning on asking her. "I like this one. It's really cute and I'm sure the girl you're going to ask is going to love it." I look at it and I smile at her looking into her eyes. "It's beautiful." I smile and I tell the cashier and he boxes it and I pay for it. "Lets go to the homecoming store in here now and we'll help each other out. But first I think we should eat. What do you want? Lunch is on me." I look at her as we walk into the food court. "Are you sure? I have money." She asks in a rush. "I'm positive." I smile at her. "Okay, is Panda Express okay with you Daniel?" She asks. "You read my mind." We both smile and I take her to the line and let her get what she wants first and then I order and pay and we go sit down across from each other and eat and talk. When we finish I take her trash and mine too and I throw it away and walk back over to her and get my bag with the necklace and we go over to the homecoming store to look for her dress and my suit. "Okay so ladies first." I grab her hand in a friendly way and I take her over to the dresses and then let go. "What do you have in mind?" I ask her. "I don't really know honestly. Will you help me?" She asks me. "Of course." I said ladies first because I want to get a somewhat matching suit to her dress. We look around for awhile and then she finds a dress that she seems to really like. "I'm gonna try it on. Wait for me outside?" She asks me cutely. "No problem." I smile at her and sit on the bench in front of the fitting rooms waiting for her. She comes out kinda shy with a huge smile on her face. "What do you think?" She asks me as she stands in front of me in a sleek black, form fitting, one shouldered, above the knee dress. "Wow, you look beautiful. I love it." I'm smiling like an idiot while looking at her. "Then it looks like this one it is." She smiles and goes back to change and then we go look for me a suit. An all black one catches my eye and I try it on with some black oxfords and she says it looks great and I get that one and the oxfords. We pay and then we decide to hang out in this lobby hang out place in the mall and I put our stuff in a rentable locker but I keep the necklace in my pocket and we walk around and talk for awhile. I pull the necklace out of my pocket and kneel down in front of her and open the box. "Vanessa, will you go to homecoming with me?" As I ask her the exact words I've been playing over and over again in my head all day, I can hear my heart beating fast and loud. She's all I want, she's all I need. I stay there on one knee looking up into her eyes.
Vanessa's P.O.V (Update soon guys!)
