Nightmares never end, they drag on and you have to hope you can make it through. I heard a scream ring out through the gloomy night sky, a woman. I just ignored it as I did with everything else that has happened in this world. I can fake a smile like a pro, after having an abusive father and now I'm stuck in a relationship that's abusive mentally; it comes as second nature. I walked through the allies slowly, praying that my boyfriend would be asleep by the time I got home. I heard a splash and I looked down to see my reflection, my jet black hair was dishevelled from crying and my green eyes were still gleaming with unshed tears. My slender figure was hunched over and my jacket was wrinkled.

I shook my head and kept walking through the alley, I knew the dangers but if anyone were to attack me with any luck I would be dead by the time anyone would hear my screams. Life, there was no rewind button to punch, there was only desperate attempts to lead a normal life. There's a man at the bar just a few blocks away from her little apartment, you could walk in there and he would be drinking his sorrows away. The man wasn't poor of money, no he was poor of heart and when he would leave at night he never could stand still. He told me one time that he drinks an extra drink a night for when I didn't come in, all because he knows was it's like to live within the confines of Hell.

Walking back out of the grimy and gloomy alley I let out a mournful sigh, no one there to kill me today. I walked a little further and my thoughts started to consume me, the depression I had fallen victim to had finally showed me the end. I walked to the bridge calmly, knowing this would be the last time my feet would touch these streets.

"When the bottom of a bottle can't wash away my sorrows there is only one option left. Goodbye to this cruel world, I was damned from the start." I started to get ready to jump but I stopped after hear a mechanical wheezing noise. Looking out of the corner of my eye I could see a man slowly approaching me, I couldn't make out his features though.

"Please, I don't know you but please come down… this is not the way to go and I am so sorry for whatever is making you do this to yourself. Please, don't let the enemy win." I looked at him and shook my head, how could he understand?

"Of course you wouldn't understand, this Hell is exhausting, I want no more of it." I looked the man in the eye. He stood there, watching me with big sad eyes, I couldn't take it anymore. I was about to jump when strong arms found their way around me.