Thirty Three

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Thirty Three
Old Habits

"I waited for you to realize that you were enough for me and you never did"



"I waited for you to realize that you were enough for me and you never did"

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Of course I lost my baby

I've taken so many lives I felt like this is genuinely what I deserved.  I've felt so much stress and angst from all of the terrible things I've done, my body couldn't possibly hold something so precious and pure. I took a baby's life a few weeks ago. She was happy and innocent and I stole her. She'll never get married, graduate high school, go to college, have children. She was only sixteen. I don't understand why I thought that wouldn't come back on me. I don't know why I thought I was excluded from Coca's karma.

"I'm sorry" Israel looked up at me with his eyebrows furrowed. I had been out of the hospital for 2 days. I was still in Atlanta with plans to leave to Dallas in the morning. I told Tyler that I was sick and needed a few days to leave. He was annoyed, but didn't argue too much.

"Don't apologize to me. You didn't do anything wrong. It's not your fault." He reassured me. I just felt like if he were with anyone else this wouldn't have happened. I was in a dark mood. I felt depressed and worthless.

"It is. If I wasn't so fucked up, my luck wouldn't be this bad." "Charlie. You have to get it in your head that you're worthy of being happy. Bad stuff happens to good people all the time. It just wasn't our time."

I loved that he didn't judge me and emphasized the fact that I deserved unconditional love. I just wished that I believed him.

"I have a habit of pushing people away,  but I really feel like you would be better off without me." "I'm not doing that with you. I'm not going anywhere. I already told you that. I think I've figured you out. You always run back to Tyler even though you hate him because you feel like you're shouldn't be able to experience love for real. I told you that's wack as fuck."

"I'm serious. You're too good for me." "Like your baby daddy was too good for you? Are you going to go find me a wife too? You're ridiculous." He got up to head downstairs. I was hoping that he would leave and stay gone. I couldn't help but to self sabotage. I was a cancer to people's lives. Familiar tears fell down my face. I wanted to chase him, and love him, and live happily ever after, but I couldn't. This felt like Andre all over again.

I heard footsteps on the stairs and hurried to wipe my eyes in an attempt to mask my tear stained face.

"I'm about to go alright. I'm gonna stay at Jason's until I can move into my apartment in a couple of days. You need anything?" I shook my head no. He chuckled and rolled his eyes. I'd been basically torturing him with my gloomy mood for 2 days. I'm sure he was fed up by now.

"Ok. What time are you leaving in the morning?" "My flight is at 6:30" he nodded. "You want me to settle in and then come back and spend the night? I can take you to the airport in the morning."

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