• I lay on my bed. The covers are over my face as I try not to cry, they are fighting again. Over and over I hear them yell. I try to block out the screams but cannot. I jump out of bed and slide on my shoes. I take the long knife on my bed stand and open up the window, I feel faint as I slip threw the small opening to a silent place. I open the blade, only to close it again. I remeber her words, Please, I beg you to stop. I love you. Please stop hurting yourself like that. Talk to me For I am here to listen. Her pleads ring over and over in my head. I toss the knife down. It begins to rain. I reach in the window and grab a hoody and pull it over my slender body. I Sit on the ledge that is by my room. I pull my legs around me and sit in the wet, stinging rain. Everything has gone wrong. They continue to fight even when they know it hurts us. I slide to the ledge and turn on my belly, slipping my feet over the edge I use my upper arms to hold my weight untill my feet locate the slippery metal. My shoes squeak as I Slowly release my weight and jump from the black bar. I land on my toes roatating the weight onto my heels, I use to be really good at just jumping from the roof, but that was when they would fight constantly. I look around to make sure no one has noticed me. No one ever does. I Slide the hood up onto my tan face. I pull the dark black sunglasses from my pocket and slide them over my hazel eyes. My brown hair is hanging in my face. I know what my brother would say if he came home right now, 'Why aren't you inside? Get your stupid hair out of your face!" , I smile as I relize that he wouldn't be coming home, My little brother was at a friend's house otherwise I wouldn't be leaving like this. I walked down the sidewalk. I look before crossing the street and turning right. I walk a little more and take a left. There I go straight, past the old folks home, a few houses, I walk up a steep road and I am at the hospital. I continue to walk untill I hit the river.
    I find a broken tree and sit there enjoying the silence. Nothing but the crickets churping. Nothing but the rain slowling to a stop on the trees. I look up and a small night breeze pushes my hair out of my face, "Hey." I mutter knowing it is my father, my real one. I smile a little and then notice the trees. Their branches moving in the breeze, dancing and twisting, entwing themselves in one another as if two lovers afraid to let go of the other, For fear one might leave. I could hear the leaves crackling and protesting against the wind. They hung to the branch for dear life, and support, And somehow they stayed onto the branch no matter what size. I smiled and wished that could be me. I looked into the dark muk of the river. It was a pitch black color and broken twigs,grass and leaves littered the flowing water. I realize that I had been wrong only the lucky leaves managed to hold on. The unlucky ones drowned and died, I realize that it reflected me. I stood and dipped my hand in to catch a small heart-shapped yellow leaf, turned that way from lack of nutrients. I hold the leaf close to me. Wishing I could save it from my pain, Praying that nothing would ever have to go through this kind of pain. I looked at the stars and they twinkled and I realized that their were others who had to go through what I was going through, wheather in nature or in the human world, I realized that I wasn't alone. I sat down throwing my body wait on the rotted wood. I sat and cried. Soaking my right sleeve and switching to my legt it wasn't long before that one was soaked as well. I thought of my friend then, and pulling out my cell phonei dialed her number, I heard her voice answear teh phone, Sweet and melodic. I was about to hang up but she knew it was me, "hey." She said, I could hear the sadness in her voice, "can you come get me?" I asked and the answear I already knew, "Of course silly." she laughed and I started to laugh to, Realizing that I must have sounded afraid that she would leave me, but I know she would never abandon me. She would always be here for me and I would be here to return the favor when she neede me