Scars and past times

Prologue

Today is the future. Today is the now. Today is where the holding off stops and the running begins. I never had an ordinary childhood. My parents got divorced last year and it was definitely not a highlight of my year. My dad left me and my mom for some side chick he met at a bar. It was senior year when it happened. I was ready to go to UCLA but then they got divorced. I couldn't leave my mom alone so I ended up not going. She was depressed for months. Her tears washed her face until her skin was raw with pain from the past. I stayed with her for that year making her dinner every night and getting her ready for bed. During that year my mom always took an afternoon nap. That was my me time. That's when I met Billy. He was super nice to me and my mom. I was buying carrots for the soup I was going to make that night for dinner and he was at the cash register. I shouldn't have fallen for him. For the first 2 months he was kind and sweet. He took me to fancy restaurants with his parents money and took me to the beach where we would lay for the rest of the day watching the sun slowly shrink under the horizon. After the 2 heavenly months disappeared, he disappeared as well. He was gone a lot. He had no more time for me. I would maybe see him once every 2 weeks. One day I saw his car parked out front of the bar my dad was at when my mom caught him cheating. I was curious and casually walked into the bar.