I fall to the floor and weep. My nails borrow and grip into the floor. What is this pain I'm feeling?! Please, stop! Suddenly, I hear a breaking sound. It's not like a building falling or the ground cracking. It's something else. A strange sensation is occurring inside me. I crawl into a ball and scream yet again into the black abyss. Why won't it end?

Her smile shifts to a frown as she whispers, "Why did you let me die?" Despite the length separating us, her heartbreaking words pound at my eardrums. My hands frantically cover my ears as I attempt to block out the tormenting echoes of her voice. With blurry vision, I watch as the shadows and branches finally consume her body. My voice finally summons enough persuasion to scream her name, "Valerie!" But it's too late. Her body has drained of color.

Everything was silent now. It wasn't the comforting, peaceful silence that one would happily welcome. Instead it was the eerie silence that the darkest of souls dreaded. The kind that acted as a poison, taking shelter in your veins and writhing through your bones. The silence that consumed your thoughts, your mind, your sanity.

Nate Amelia Rivers was always depressed. She was bullied in school abused at home and had no place to go. She hurt herself a lot too. She left school and is now 25 and works at a cafè. But when she met Mark, her life was going to change. *CONTAINS SELF HARM, DEPRESSION, ABUSE, BULLYING - READ AT YOUR OWN RISK