Melancholy

Quinn lays in her bed covering her body a soft blanket but her foot is exposed feeling the coldness of her room, through that she can feel comfort. Upon hearing the clocks ticking and the sound of the rain falling, she realized that she's immersed on doing nothing but overthinking " why can't you just let me sleep " she softly whispered.

The night passed, another day for her to face the morning sun, although she didn't get enough sleep at least she could face people and greet them with a wide smile. Everyone think she's fine, she'd been doing fine for almost a year now. Nobody even noticed how it is painful when you look on her eyes.

The night comes again but these time she's alone outside looking at the moon and stars in the sky. The moon gives enough light to see the tree and rope hanging beside her, as the cold wind caresses her face a tear came out running from her eyes with a dark circles, went through her pale cheeks down to her side lips and formed a sad smile.

A new morning come, again she greet and smile to everyone she passes by but a strange feeling hit her when they ignore her and not even have a single glance at her.

Quinn committed suicide by hanging herself to a rope above the branch of a tree outside their house. The police investigated where the crime scene happens and the crime scene was done outside her room.

Quinn went home and sees her mother crying in front of a white coffin beside a bright lights and a lot of flowers.

She has a elder sister whom she loves so much, at that day her sister was crying aloud while walking cuz she missed Quinn. When she arrived their house she saw Quin peacefully sleeping, she didn't even take a look and quickly walked bound to her room, all of the visitors heard her shouting aloud.

"Why Quinn? Why? Why did you left us behind?" She shouted and burst her melancholy inside her room.

She didn't even noticed that Quinn just peek out on her front.

"I love you sis, stop crying! It's not your fault, tell our mom and dad that I loved all of you the most, I need to go sis, always remember that you will always be the best sister, I love you very much" Quinn said and slowly faded in her sight.

"I love you too baby, I also used to look at you while sleeping because you such a cute girl but why? Why you slept inside that coffin?!" She continued sobbing while holding her pillow with her full power using her fist.

Week passed Quinn's mom went to the police station. Gave her hand to the police.

"Put the cuff into my hands sir" she said.

The police got confused

"Why would we do that ma'am?" The police asked.

"My daughter didn't committed suicide, I killed her" She replied.

The police was shocked and gulped for a moment.

"Can you show us what kind of weapon you used?" He asked.

The mother nod her head and opened her mouth, she pointed on her tongue.

"Gun's, knife, scissor, is not the weapon I used to kill my child. This tongue is the weapon i used. I cursed her, tell her bad things and never appreciated her efforts and compared her to others. I didn't used my tongue to motivate and cheer her up, instead I used my tongue to bring her down and degrade her from her dreams. I killed her by my words" Her mother said.

Quinn slowly walked and peek, inside there is a peacefully sleeping girl, a memory came flashing to her, how she tried to escape from her deep melancholy, suddenly a small smile formed to her lips as she whispered " now I can able to sleep, not only for tonight but forever".

A dazzling ray of sunlight landed on Quinn's window causing her to wake up. A very nice smile will burst upon you if she is with you every morning, you can't hide the joy inside her in every morning that comes, no morning will pass that she doesn't smile every time she wakes up. Before her clock even ring she's already awake, she always wants to annoy her sister whenever she sees her still asleep, sometimes she squeezes her sister's face or maybe her nose just to wake her up.

She heard someone knocked at the door three times when a voice asked if he was awake at the same time, Quinn immediately stood up and opened the door, his father came up to him looking very nice awake, Quinn hugged him and greet him good morning. It was such a good day as always, her dad roved at her and together they walked bound to the kitchen to eat breakfast. While inside their bed, her sister, Ivory, got immersed on doing nothing but just a dull brained dult on the seeling. She suddenly sat and still dult, looking at the door. After a while she stood up and organized her bed and went at their bathroom to brush her teeth, while down stairs their mom had a bad morning and cause her to shout at Quinn ln and saying bad things about her, her mom said that Quinn was lazy, idiot and brainless. Her mom didn't even saw Quinn studying so hard to reach her dream, nor seeing her doing chores for her mom. While Quinn's sister was going down hearing all those ridicules from her mom. Ivory, Quinn's sister came up asking a question "what's happening again?" All of them got silence for a second and then her mom started to shout again to say bad things to Ivory as well. Their mom Norah was not their real mom, their real mom died after Quinn born, their mom died due to lost of water and blood, while their dad, he used to protect his daughters but their his new wife looks like a boss and he knew she will forsake them and let them live outside homeless.

For me family is about relationships. Relationship is about love and affection, giving and receiving, respect and understanding, learning and helping, sharing and feeling, trust and confining, service and gratitude. It is about giving and receiving moral support in times of challenge. It is about sharing a joy, a joy which has no meaning in solitude.

Most of us, teenagers, having mistakes of not giving valuable or importance to our family. Sometimes, we get mad at them for some other reasons, but we should keep on our mind that life is too short. So while it is early, show them how you love them. Show them that you care for them. Don't waste the times, days, weeks, months and years that god gave you. Use it right now and use it correctly.

Our family is the most precious thing we have. The friends that we have today may not be our friends in the future, but our family. They will always be our family that will always be there for us through ups and downs and love us no matter what.

Family is priceless; no one could ever buy and it cannot be describe by a single word.

While getting ready for school inside their room, they used to talk about their real mom.

"Ivory?" Quinn started to ask question.

"Yes baby?" As Ivory replied.

"How does mama look like?"

Ivory suddenly stopped brushing her hair and looked at Quinn at the mirror. He turned herself to Quinn and she holds her cheeks.

"Quinn, mama looked just like you, how cute you are is how beautiful is our mama" Ivory answered the sad question from Quinn.

"Well, is she a good mom? Not like mommy Norah?" Quinn asked once again.

"Of course baby girl she is, and she gave birth to a child who was good as her"

"I wish I could hug mama like you did"

Ivory simply leaned through Quinn and hugged her tight.

in fact, to live without a mother caring for a child is a very difficult life that a child has to go through.

A sad, lonely and broken daughter finding it hard losing a mother who had been my source of strength, guide and light. Life was once simple and happy

Days and nights shared with you and me.

Joys and struggles together

Surpassed by faith through the years.

But...mornings are different now.

No cuppa' coffee and breakfast together

While we breath and say thanks

To another beautiful day. Fate changed and went so fast.

You struggled in pain and tears...

Held on to faith and made a good fight.

Gone just the same and never to be back. Brave as i was but not until you were gone.

I cry day and night with so much sadness and tears.

Never had i imagine a life like this so broken.

Pain of missing you lingers like forever.

Sleep well in heaven dear Mom. They thought they was strong enough, lived a life independently since my parents broke off when Ivory was very young at 6. At those time when broken families are not too many, they where sure it wouldn't be easy living a life without a mother to take care of Ivory and her younger sister. They grew up with their Dad, while their mom had to leave and mend her broken self, for personal reasons their Dad and his folks have caused, us children have to endure. Still thankful tho'.

Life is good but not always that easy. We need to be brave and strong to weather any storm.

Remember, sun shines out after the darkness and rain. Faith brings hope and light us the way. Ms. Universe 2019 - Catriona Gray once shared this inspirational saying, "...at the end of every dark clouds, there is always a silver lining." They believed in that too. They just wish it would be soon, so they won't have to miss her everyday.

The car suddenly stops when they arrived at school, Ivory quickly opened the door and tried to escape the car, you can see through her posture and facial expressions that she's mad, reason for Quinn to get worried, their daddy locked the door so that Ivory won't go out.

"You look very angry huh, Ivory" their dad started.

"Isn't it obvious?! Let me get out!" Ivory replied.

"Calm down" as Quinn trued to comfort her sister.

"You shouldn't have to marry a girl like that, don't you worry about Quinn?" Ivory shouted as she bursted her anger through her dad and it make her dad formed a face of disappointment.

"Ivory-"

Ivory walked out as she pushed the button on the front and angrily closed the door before her dad even finishes what he's saying.

"I'm sorry dad I'm going to comfort her, we'll be fine, bye dad" an angelic Quinn becharmed to her dad with a face of sadness seeing upon.

She walked outside after she gently closed the door, she fixed her bag and books and continued walking, after a while one of her classmates called her

"Quinn!" A familiar voice called her from her left and it made her turn, her classmates are waving at her signaling to come with them but when she looked at her sister walking in front of her, she bowed her head and suddenly hugged her sisters back.

"You shouldn't have to get mad at him" Quinn started.

"He just want us to have a mom" she annex

"Mom like that?" Ivory replied as she turned to Quinn and her tears started to fall.

"Well, I think he did he's best to find someone" Quinn answered while wiping ivory's tears.

"Stop crying, if you're thinking about me, I'm fine, I'll be fine, just with you and dad, I'm fine" Quinn explained.

They started to walk while Ivory was hugging her cute angelic sister and she delivered her little sister through her classroom. They both waved goodbye so the class starts.

They both doing well at class, every quarter they didn't even miss any award and medals, they are both genius and intelligent, tho, maybe their mom took really good care of Ivory so that Ivory has a very good knowledge to take good care of Quinn as well, at their school they are very well known students. Ivory was a champion volleyball player while Quinn was a school genius. Quinn knows everything about psychology and biology although she's only a grade schooler, she didn't stop studying, she don't have other hobby than studying and doing arts, but she's not showing to her classmates that she's secretly good at art. Later after second class Quinn went at girls comfort room to pee while suddenly a girl came in knocking the door where she in.

"Hello?" A low voice like a scary girl burst into her that made her frightened.

"I know there's someone inside, can you help me?" A voice suddenly got tremble and sounds like deeply crying.

She thought she's the one who's scared but after she heard that girl asking for help her heart got melted and wanted to help.

She slowly opened the door and a crying girl she saw and she looks like just eight years old.

"Help me please" the girl asked for help while crying quietly.

"What happened?" Quinn worriedly asked.

"Shh don't make noise they would hear me" the girl said.

"Who?"

"They're trying to harass me, they taught i was the only one here inside, they're outside waiting." The girl explained what's happening while she's trying to stop sobbing.

Quinn grabbed her phone on her pocket when she realized she left it on her bag. While at her sisters part, Ivory was trying to call her for so many times but she's not even answering, so she got worried but her class wasn't finished yet so she can't find a way out. From Quinn's watch she take a look at the time and third class was going to start, they only have fifteen minutes left. Suddenly someone knocked at the door and started to whistle like a mafia one. The girl started to tremble.

"What's your name?" Quinn asked while she's trying to step on one of the sink and trying to reach the small window at the top.

"I-im Charlotte" the girl answered.

"Well, such a very cute name" Quinn said to comfort her.

Quinn was now struggling to reach the window but afterwards she successfully opened it. She saw that's it's too high to go down outside but there's a big pipe where they can hold on. Now she's thinking how they can skip, but before that she need to find out who's outside so when they escaped they can report those mans trying to harass such an innocent girl like Charlotte.

While her sister was still trying to call her but Quinn's phone was left on her bag and it was on silent mode so only signal it can do is vibrate and the only chance to answer that phone is when someone sat on Quinn's chair so they'll feel the vibration from her phone. A minute after Ivory made 50 miss calls on Quinn's phone, ten minutes left and Ivory's second class was going to end, Ivory was ridged by tension thinking if Quinn was fine, she can't excuse that time cuz her subject teacher was too strict to inweave that she's going to pee. Suddenly Ivory's teacher started to walk around the class and slowly bound to her, while she's getting nervous, what if that creepy teacher caught her on her phone, Ivory was also a clever one so she opened her notes, inside there is a compartment that fits her phone she set her phone dialling Quinn and then she used her laptop to cover her hands on what she's doing. Their teacher called Ivory and asked hard question, she got tremble from nervousness, she don't know what to answer cuz she's not listening all the time, while suddenly her classmate from her back kicked her softly, she put her hands at her back without even noticing by her teacher she read the answer from the paper that her classmate Liam gave her. She passed successfully and her teacher started to walk forrowing from her. And so she quickly opened her phone and simply glanced to see if her sister answered but another trial and error, she didn't. While at the school bathroom Quinn and Charlotte still stuck.

"Do you have a mirror?" As Quinn cleverly asked.

Charlotte rapidly gave the small mirror she have from her pocket.

"Perfect, this one suits" as Quinn endorse.

She attemperately cirbed the small, thin mirror at the side of the bathroom door where there's a small space between and she can't believe on what she saw.