We only regret the chances we didn't take.
Leilani was an average person. Gets average grades, not bad enough to make fun of, not good enough to praise. Nothing out of the ordinary, a regular house, not too big, not too shabby. There is plenty of regular people out there,
So then why her?
Who knew a few simple, yet agonistic words could ruin her life?
The heart replays what the mind can't delete,
She lays there in her bed, thinking maybe she'll just lie down and fall asleep before she falls apart,
"I don't have a future" she says
"Yeah I know you don't"
She looks up, in shock on the verge of tears,
"You have never had a future,or a chance "
Her throat throbs in pain, corners of her mouth forced downwards, her eyes let out the first tears, yet the next line changes her face completely, almost to a point it's utterly unbelievable,
He smiles, so softly,
"You have a chance now, create your future."
It's like the whole world stopped. Everyone just stood there, not moving or breathing. The lights faded out and my lungs ached. I couldn't breathe. No matter if I gasped, nothing would come. Everything was a blur. In that moment, I knew that I just pissed off the wrong person, and I was dying. "I love you, L-" I gasped out before the whole world started to work again. But I wasn't there, I was dead.