jade-island-lives

Daryl felt his hands shaking, he was sitting in his apartment in the commonwealth with tears in his eyes. He was holding Judith’s homework, a drawing of her family. There was plenty of people in it, himself included but those that Judith hadn’t met when she was old enough to remember was making his heart burn. He dropped the paper onto the coffee table and ragged sobs began to escape his lips. He was glad the kids were at school, he didn’t know what to do with all of these emotions. He tried to push all of these emotions down so he could focus on his family and the kids. He gripped the couch as more ragged sobs escaped his mouth. “Oh…. God…” He stood up and made his way down the hall, his legs wobbled as he continued forward. He gripped the sink and stared into the mirror, tears dripped down the drain. He looked back into the mirror, his blue eyes were filled with sadness. He squeezed his eyes closed as he thought deeply about how he got this far. He didn’t know how he was the one

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls." George Carlin “I’m telling you, brother, it’s a frightful sight to see what goes on Halloween night.” Bing Crosby Prologue Halloween had finally arrived in Olympia, Washington. Yasmine had spent most of the semester entirely focused on her classes. The twenty-year-old Hispanic girl had spent most of her high school years ditching English or math to spend time with her friends or whoever she was dating at the time. It was not until the summer before her senior year that her parents finally decided to sit down and have a proper discussion with her about the future and what she wanted for herself. And that one honest heart-to-heart talk with her parents helped open her eyes to where she currently was in life. She had no future beyond hanging out with her friends. Every kid wanted nothing more than that, but she was no longer a child and she realized that as well. That was no more than two years ago, and