“ tears come from the heart and not the brain. ”
***
Kiya walked into her house dragging her bag behind her. “ mother I'm back. ” she yelled out as she walked to her room not even waiting for a reply, she knew her mother must have been sleeping.
Her mother worked as a waitress for some night club that she didn't care to know about, so her mom spent most of the days sleeping and at night she went to work. Kiya walks in her room and drops herself on her bed, school had always been the same boring to no end and the fact that today Phoebe had kept on bugging her about the details of the new guy made her even annoyed.
Kiya didn't get why teenage girls found it interesting to talk about boys, the topic never attracted her attention. She thought all boys were the same rude, disgusting and violent she didn't need to know more than that.
Kiya falls asleep staring at the ceiling with her legs dangling on the end of her bed, Candice Kiya's mother walks in the room and finds her daughter asleep.
She shakes her head and walks over to remove her shoes, then she moves over to try and remove the big hoodie she had on. Candice knew her daughter walked around in the hoodie to hide away her scars, she knew her daughter his herself from the world behind the hoodies but didn't say anything. A lot had happened to Kiya and somehow Candice found a way to blame herself for what her daughter had gone through, she felt like she hadn't been around for her.
Kiya shoots up awake with tears in her eyes and beads of sweat on her face, Candice moves over and pulls her in a comforting hug patting her back soothingly.
“ relax I'm here now, nothing happened. ” Candice said patting Kiya on the back, Kiya closed her eyes letting the tears roll down her cheeks.
“ mom the nightmares are getting worse, I can't take it anymore. ” she murmurs against her mom's shirt. “ relax just breath, we will go see the doctor again. ” Candice says.
At the mention of a doctor Kiya tenses she didn't want to go see a doctor again, they always made her retell the nightmares again and again and she didn't want to be reminded of it.
“ Kiya we need to go, your nightmares are getting worse and you know it. ”
“ mom I don't want to go, I'll just find a way to deal with this but no more doctors please. ” she pleads
“ let's go have dinner, we will talk more tomorrow. ” she pulls her daughter up. Kiya walks over to her bathroom and cleans her face before going out to join her mom for dinner.
***
Harry tried to fall sleep but every time he closed his eyes he saw his mother face in front of him, he saw her bloodied body on the floor in her white dress. He couldn't sleep, he tossed and turned on his bed but nothing worked he finally gave up and decides to go out for a ride.
He grabbed his car keys and heads out of his room, he finds his grandpa standing outside his door ready to knock.
“ grandpa what are you doing here, it's late ” Harry says.
Ben chuckles and shakes his head “ I should be telling you the same thing, where are you even going all dressed up like that? ” he asked eyeing Harry's outfit. Harry had on his black jeans and white T-shirt underneath his black leather jacket.
