Author notes: Just to let you know this is my first story and the characters are not mine so i take no credit from that but i do take credit for the idea of the story. Also i am Dyslexic so if i spelt anything wrong please tell me and i will correct it. Hope you love the story and would love to here your comments.
If I knew living on my own would be so lonely I would have done it sooner, its what I deserve. I walked threw the snowy woods of Alaska finding a new place to camp for the night. Yep I'm totally broke, living in the woods, saving little money I've got. Busking in Alaska wasn't the best place to get money. But being only sixteen years old and a runaway left me little place to go. I had to hide some place no one would ever find me, even if that means having to be a frozen Popsicle to do it.
I stopped at a cliff and just under it you can see the city of Denali a small town in Alaska. It's taken me 3 months to get here from Lima Ohio, I mostly walked it, took a few rides here and there. It was starting to get dark so I put my sleeping bag on the floor and started a fire to keep warm for the night. I placed my backpack on the ground near the tree where I laid my sleeping bag. I sat down on my small bed and took out the guitar Puck gave me with my darling daughters name written on the front. I smiled at the view of the snowy town below and the shining stars above.
I slowly started to play my guitar and sang my feelings to the night sky.
Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty
Oh, and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
After I played that last cord I broke down into tears. I cried for all the things that I lost in my life, the loss of my family, the loss of my friends, the loss of my love and the most important thing in my life the loss of my beloved daughter Beth my little angel.
I crawled into my sleeping bag and held on to my locket that held the only baby picture of my daughter and cried myself to sleep just like everynight since I gave my daughter away, the biggest mistake of my life.
Song by Sarah Mclachlan In the Arms of an Angel