The day that everything died.

The day that everything died, the day that everything in the world came to a halt, was the day that I was born. When I came into existence, everything that was remotely connected to my new born life ended. Everything ceased to being complete and everything that was once good just ended. It ended, just like that. In a blink of an eye, everything was gone.

My mother died in childbirth. While having me, she began to internally bleed, because of some type of complication. I'm not really sure what it was, the doctors weren't really loath to tell, because perhaps they didn't want to place the blame on anybody, or perhaps they just didn't want to have to deal with a grieving husband and a distraught new born child. I'm not really sure what their reasoning was, but whatever it was it worked, because the knowledge that I just shared was all that was given to me or my father.

My mother and my father were deeply in love. Whenever they were together, everybody in their presence commented on how the atmosphere always changed drastically and everything was light and happy. My parents had an aura around them, most especially when they were together. Whenever they were together, they were happy. Yes, they would have fights, but they'd never last any longer than a few hours. Even that was pushing it. They were so deeply in love, so devoted to one another, that when one was in pain, the other was in pain as well just because the other hurt so much.

The day that my mother died was the day that my father died. That day was the day that I, Haley James, came into existence was also the day that I became an orphan. My father died soon after my mother. Apparently something in his heart ruptured. Literally a broken heart. The day that life as everyone knew it was over.

That day was the day that I opened my eyes for the first time to look at eyes filled with sadness and despair.

My companions from that moment on, sadness and despair were all that I ever knew.

At least until I met Nathan Scott.