I look up at the clear blue

aring my gaze away from it.

e pain inside my chest every time I

s as I look at my own shaking ha

a mo

e

my skin stings as I collapse onto the

ms at the corner of my eye, and I know that i

the pain in my heart – I can no longer feel i

are as he stares at me. « Is this all that you could get for me

ide me. How could h

n working hard to earn it by juggli

at the local bookstore. The owner is k

immediately snatched it out of my hand. Well, at least not

forcefully robbed my wallet last time. I don

n the world of gambling now. I've seen those deb

rous ground by hiding my money fro

that I won't starve m

helter to live in, that you can still stay under my fucking roof

have moved here in New York. She wouldn't have sold our hou

rd him becomes

ied, Tuck tricked Mom with

ect us and take care of us. And when he finally revealed his tru

dy, and he used her to help him solve hi

spats. « Don't look at me like that with those ugly

I try to reach for my th

rs, and every time he looks at them, they remind him of all those ang

and I groan in pain. Furious, he stomps out of the foyer towa

Feeling my blood boiling, I storm into my roo

this. I've promised myself not to cry anym

. I miss h

still here with

. Died in

ed her that she shouldn't be driving that morning when she had barely enough

er get into her car every time she went for work

I couldn't see her anymore