Fallen Angels

Chapter 8: Rene: Vanished

Instead of my alarm. I awoke to the cold winter morning to my mom hovering over my bed softly shaking me awake.  The morning light stung my eyes as I peered at my mom with one eye. She quivered and shook as she slowly walked towards me then sat on the side of my bed, staring at me while bitting her lip and rocking back and forth. She can't sit still, I guess because of the drugs.

"Can I talk to you?" her voice sounded more pitiful than useful as her broken words fall from her mouth. It was werid. She never talks to me unless it's "Where's the money?" or "I'll be out late.", let alone look at me directly. I sat up in bed.

"What is it?" I said with a look of confusion. She scratched her neck as she slowly drifted into her own world.

"He said he's not going to take care of me and the ba-baby no more." her shudder gets worse as tears begin to roll down her puffy cheecks."He said he's ti-tired of m-m-my bull-bullshit."

My throat tighten and my eyes begun to water as I became bug eyed knowing what she was saying but didn't want it to be true. I jumped out of bed, hysterical.

"What baby mom?!"I noddged her on her shoulder but she looked right through me like I was made of glass.

"He said he's not going to take care of me and the ba-baby no more."She said over and over as she rocked back and fourth holding her a hands over her ears.

What baby mom?!" now I was yelling this time I pushed her harder making her fall back.

She looked at me like it was the first time she saw me. She stood up and tried to walk out the door but something in me snapped. I pushed her against the wall with all my strength a gush of blood started to flow down her head.

"What fucking baby!?.Huh?!. Fucking Answer me?!" Tears of anger and frustration rush down.

She holds her legs against her chest and burys her face as she says

"The car. The car."

I run out the house to my mom's car without hesitation. And there he was. My baby brother. Crying his heart out on the floor of the passenger side of the car wrapped in old blankets. I  picked him up and cradled him. I began walking back to my buliding and my mother was sitting on the stairs smoking a cigarette. Crying and rocking. As I walked up the stairs into the buliding I turned to her and without thinking I say

"I wish you weren't my mother."

I didn't know it then but that would be the last words I would ever say to her.

"Hey m-. "

Silence. Complete silence. She was gone. Everyone was gone. The world was quiet. The clam before the storm. Chaos begun its reign. Destruction. Fire. I ran down the stairs and started yelling for her over and over again. Nothing. Driverless cars crashed into each other and skidded off the road into desyoryed buildings.  A explosion  from a car knocked me down causing me to drop my brother making him cry hysterically. I quickly picked him up and held him tight against me as I ran into the building while dodging the falling sky.