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Edward's POV
" Angela, it's not your fault. Everything happens for a reason.", I rub the sobbing teens back. Today is group therapy. Some teens get together and talk about what's happened to them. Almost everyone has a different reason.
" How? If I hadn't asked Eric to take me to the movies, he'd still be alive!", She cries. Angela went the the movies with her boyfriend, Eric. While they were walking back to his car, a guy pulled a gun on them. Eric gave them everything but it wasn't enough. He shot Eric in the chest and he died before the ambulance got there. Angela is in therapy for depression and her nightmares.
" It wasn't you who pulled out the gun. It wasn't you who pulled the trigger. There's nothing you could have done." I say in a soft voice. She nods her head but I can tell that there still hasn't been a breakthrough with her yet. I look at the clock and notice that the time is up.
" Alright guys, I'll see you all next Wednesday. Have a good week.", I tell them all. They mutter their goodbyes and leave. I sit down and sigh.
All I want right now is to go home and sleep. I have a 5 o'clock appointment though. A kid named...Alice Brandon. She's 17 and her parents died. Her half sister has custody of her. She's angry and depressed. At 4:55 she walks in. She's dressed in all black and has a short pixie haircut. Her lips are bright red. I can tell that her blue eyes used to shine with excitement but now they're just empty pits.
" You must be Alice. I'm Edward Cullen, your councilor.", I hold out my hand. She shakes it and sits down.
" So I guess I'll just start talking... Um, my parents died four months ago. We were on our way to visit my half sister. The roads were slippery but Dad was a good driver so we didn't worry. Everything was fine, until... Until some drunk asshole decided to drive. He slammed into my dad's side of the car. It wouldn't of been so bad if there wasn't a small cliff next to us. We went over the edge. The um, the doctors said Mom died on impact and Dad died a few short minutes after. I got a broken arm and about forty stitches. I lost my baby... I hadn't told my parents yet. I was thirteen weeks pregnant. My boyfriend, Felix didn't want the baby. My sister, she um, she lost a baby when she was seventeen. Almost the exact same way I did. I was just farther along than her. My sister tried to help me but...It wasn't helping so they recommended I come here. I guess that's it.", She lets a few tears fall. I decide to tell her my story.
" I started doing drugs in eighth grade. Every year I escalated to a new drug. Junior year, I had a girlfriend. At the end of the school year, she found out she was pregnant. She called me later and asked me to pick her up from her friends house. I was coked up. I made it there and picked her up. On the way home I just blanked. We went off the side of the road. I flipped the car twice before we hit a tree on my girlfriend's side. I blacked out. I woke up in the hospital with a broken arm and leg. Our baby died. I was clean for about five months. And then, I got dragged back into it. At graduation, she made me choose. The drug or her. I said some things that I'll regret the rest of my life and I chose the drugs. I finally got my head out of my ass when I overdosed a year later. I haven't touched drugs since.", I wipe away a stray tear.
We continue talking for the next hour. We learn more about each other. When Alice leaves, I pack up and head home. My roommate, Emmett wants to go out but I decline. I tell him I don't feel well and I'll go next time. He agrees and heads out. I sit back and think about Bella. The way her hair had so many different colors when she sun hit it. Her deep brown eyes that you could read like an open book. Her creamy pale skin that smelled like strawberries. How much I loved her and what a fool I was to ever let her go. I fall asleep to dreams of Bella. Dreams that could have been true if I'd only stopped using the drugs. Us playing with our baby, holding it. Marrying Bella and spending the rest of my life with her. I ruined it though, and the dreams become nightmares and there's nothing I can do to make them go away.
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