SHEER DETERMINATION
-Third Person POV-
Another long, quiet and sad day had gone by for Aurora. The thought of finding her father's lifeless body hanging from his bedroom ceiling clouded her mind just like it did everyday.
Each day since his passing, she had felt more and more frozen inside, to the point of where she was starting to feel nothing at all.
Not happiness or sadness, anger or frustration, excitement or even contentment.
Nothing.
She hadn't smiled once in the last year, not even the slightest tilt upwards of her pink lips into something close to a small smile.
She had cried multiple times a day since he left her alone against the world so that he could join her mother.
It was until the last month however where she had gone without crying, simply because she couldn't find the strength in her to pour out her emotions.
She was drained.
She was alone.
She was guarded.
She at last drifted off to sleep while her mind replayed to her the words in her fathers last letter to her. The words which she had read so many times and had cried over, that she had engraved them in her mind and new the letter off by heart.
My Dearest Aurora,
I am so sorry I will not be able to see you grow up any more than you already have. I am so sorry you never had the chance in life to be guided by your mother but you must never forget that she loved you more than anything in the world.
I am sorry for all the arguments we had over the years, no matter how big or small they were, I am sorry. I am sorry I was not able to provide for you the happy and normal life like most other children but I hope you know I tried my best under the circumstances we were in.
You Aurora, were the only reason I was able to continue on without your mother for all these years. When she passed away, I did too, but you, my lovely Aurora, kept me going for 17 years longer. I believe you deserve an explanation for my actions but I need you to understand first, that I loved you and still love you with all that is left of my heart, Aurora.
When your mother passed away, all the love and happiness seeped out of my body in the most painful and heartbreaking way possible. I made a promise to myself that no matter how I felt and no matter how much I missed and longed to see your mother again, feel her delicate touch and hear her angelic voice again, that I would first raise my daughter with all the love I was able to shower her with.
I promised myself that I would watch you grow up into the angel you have become. You are beautiful Aurora, and don't ever let anyone tell you differently my Angel.
Each day that passed since your mothers death, I was dying more and more inside, my Darling. Since the day of your mother's death, I was diagnosed with and had suffered from depression. It took a toll on my health and I was becoming very ill, but I couldn't let myself go for your sake. I fought it so that I could watch you grow up to be the beautiful woman you are today because I promised myself that.
However my sweet Aurora, after I had fulfilled my promise to you and after you had grown wings big and strong enough to leave the nest, your home, I had to let myself go. I couldn't suffer anymore. I was in too much pain, Aurora. I hope you understand this. Don't ever think my health had anything to do with you, my Angel.
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