Solitude

Part Nineteen

Wait, I'm alive? But I thought I died.

If I'm alive, where am I?

Those were the first two thoughts to enter Adlyn's mind. Slowly, she opened her eyes. She saw Eve and Alia and Timiteo and she smiled. They cared. But still...

How did I survive?

"Mom?" she said.

"Adlyn, why?" she said, her eyes red.

Oh, no...

"I'm so sorry, Mom. I'm just so depressed, I didn't want to cut, I wanted to die but I couldn't tell anyone. How did you find me?"

"She didn't, I did," Timiteo said, coming forward, his brown eyes staring into her blue ones.

"Promise me you'll never do it again," Eve said.

Her face was a mess, the makeup was all over, because she'd been sitting and crying and praying for the last however many hours, hoping Adlyn would make it.

Adlyn just shrugged.

I can't promise that, I'm sorry...