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Chapter Two
Nothing Left to Lose-Kari Kimmel
I gave my heart while it was beating
And handed it over to you
And it was so beautiful when it was needed
Now it's all messed up and left in ruins
The air filled with a terrible scream. The kind that someone has no control over. The kind people turn their faces away from because it's filled with so much raw pain and agony it couldn't possibly come from anyone besides someone who was being torn apart from the inside out.
Cassidy didn't realize he was the one screaming until the screaming turned into a broken sob that tore its way through the screaming.
He stood up and immediately lashed out, breaking every stupid knick knack on her dresser into bits. He moved, knocking books off the shelf next to her bed.
Jesse was still on the other side of her, his forehead pressed against her stomach, silent tears soaking her shirt.
Tulip had to leave the room, she couldn't be there. She went into the kitchen and cried as she broke every breakable dish in there. Cassidy came in and saw the shattered bits of dishes and sat down at the table as Tulip continued to smash dishes, letting out an angry cry with every swing of her arm.
Cassidy was numb. Number than he'd ever been. No amount of alcohol or substance could ever get him to feel like this. It was surreal. It was unbearable. And in that moment he felt that, after all these years, the one thing that might actually kill him would be a broken heart. It couldn't hurt any worse if someone walked in and tore his heart out of his chest.
Jesse came down a few minutes later and made the call. Then he pulled out a chair and sat down and pulled Tulip into his lap where she buried her tear-streaked face into his shoulder.
Cassidy looked at Jesse and Jesse stared back, neither of them really seeing the other.
Cassidy rose from the table and left. He walked for a bit outside before collapsing to his knees in the dirt and letting out another gut-wrenching scream. It felt like he screamed forever. It felt like his insides were being scorched, like he himself couldn't get a breath, until finally he collapsed onto the dirt, his mind going black.
