5:00 AM ; August 17, 1998

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-trigger warning-

Black and white. Everything is black and white. I'm alone in my bedroom; my black and white bedroom. Everything is dull and boring.

No one loves me. I have no soulmate. I couldn't love anyone else, or I'd live in constant fear of them not loving me back. I couldn't survive like that.

I feel my eyes sting with tears. This is the fourth time this week- the fourth time I make empty promises that it'll be the last.

I can't go on like this. Everyone around me has color in their life. Purpose in life. Reason to stay alive. Everyone except me.

I'm home alone. I've been waiting for a day like this to come; an opportunity for the black and white to be set free. There's a rope hidden in my sock drawer.

I tie it carefully, tears streaming down my face and prayers choking out from my mouth.

"Please, God, p-please...
Tell me there's color in heaven."

I tie it to the ceiling and step onto a wooden chair. My head fits through the loop. I don't need a note- that would be a waste of time.

I sigh and wipe my eyes.

One...

Two...

Three...

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