Into The Abyss

because she expected everyone

d to help but later didn't, was weird and

ht of it, Nicolas

r take her with him? Did she lo

nutes and when she woke up, her leg was better. She had man

idn't like the sunrise, she g

evious day but no one had come

't care that much,but she ne

the accident, right? why didn't

en talk abou

help her immediately. Her older sister and her

ng home, because if she had the opportunity

en minutes and rested on

in yet, but was too a

ck door and listened

y did on a daily. It seemed like they were just bickering a

this morning. I've been up all night and I didn't know why, Jeff..." Ashley cou

ow can you not be moved by your own da

ivered wi

e happened to her

in just then to confirm it

o stay away from him. He

ick didn't kill Amahle, she

re? I wonder what Ash sees in that impatient, bipol

are you doing this to me? How can you say su

st because he would give her anything anytime, unlike me. S

d- they were talking about

ld her mother sh

not what matters now, don't you see? Amahle is no more!

ormous bottle of alcohol dabbed at his m

yed his usual unfeelingness towards a matter that almost cost her life, or that her uncanny mother acted like she was act

eal to be fake that Ashley temporar

was wrong with her family even

rom the start. Jeff- emotionless and sadist

a, 'Zuri', and even when he stopped Imani from going to work, giving flimsy

let her trave

or her career, why did he marry her then?

r career for him. She became a lazy photogra

o the world despite knowing that her husband did not love her or w

ng of her ruins, e

, careful so none of her parents would see her. She

ie to them? Why won't they even find my body and save me?" She though

that she was never goi

***********

im. There he was outside, at the po

t of memories, talks, wet kisse

because it had the same feel as

is thoughts because he didn

know how much I wanted to make this work. You deserved peace

res of her in his hands and he had sunk his fingers into each album in anguish. Th

happen to our plan

s arm, "Stop saying stu

end seated beside him, watching the calm

an attempt to touch her, but recoiled halfway. "Look, I'm al

she got up, petrified by his reaction and walked swiftly into his apartment. Her bra

a lot of things, especially w

room, she realized how muc

ience, with purple curtains and whit

pillows on the bed called out to her fatigu

ents' wealth for himself, and so everything in this room had been bought by him. It wa

dy had some assets and degrees to his name, w

ed about him- he rarely ever asked for h

to be as wealthy or even wea

had unnerved rather than pleased her, when in a fashion show

o-hosted with her husband, Trevor. Ashley had won a ticket to the show from

was not good e

rls at the show for all she cared. She had seen how

as out to make f

clothes he wore, and the stuff he bought, in a million years because she had not

give up on me" she had thought, but then he pas

my mother has exposed herself to drugs because of him. He will run because h

tes together, to talk about her problems to him, and when he heard that her father was a ruthless dipsomaniac and a possessive mothe

tect her, and help her get pe

at first because she thought he

't think men wer

proved that

her too many good things.

Ashley knew that he could not end the series of abuse s

me was a dread and so

with him and be a burden, eve

or a long time anyway, but they especially ca

d not l

not like to see

d to conclude in her mind that her parents were je

isery and didn't w

many enviable memories together but thei

t like her as well bec

gs with 'vagabonds and vicious neer-do-wells' who

stuck w

, promising that he would never leav

ve been together have been t

pe that her family would change and her father would not drink so much and her moth

eddy bear in her hands. It was hers because he got it for

d see him through the plush, transpar

d she was already dead, and even told he

live" her voice was breaking. She ho

and as if he heard her, he got

blood as he staggered towards th

rrior that had been