His Melody

"Mom?" I whisper as I look at the woman standing at the door way. She looks different now, she has more wrinkles and her once natural scarlet red hair is bleached and is now a horrible blond color. She has on a lot of makeup, I have never seen her with makeup. She looks like she's making a desperate attempt to keep her youth with all of her makeup and her dress that is way to short.

She smiles at me, and walks closer. "Now Erza dear, let go of him and give him to me. He was only doing what he was told." She says and puts her hands out, wanting me to hand over the man. I pick him up with ease and push him toward her.

"Get out, before I call the cops" I hiss, she gives me a look of hurt. "I have seen my dear daughter in over 21 years-" she begins but I caught her off. "And I catch you in my house trying to steal from me, you really are horrible person" I say in a low voice.

She sighs, "Erza no need to talk to your dear mother with that language" she says. "My dear mother left me when I was 3 years old all alone in a crappy apartment... I can talk to you anyway I damn please" I hiss.

She chuckles, "Are you still not over that, god Erza, the world doesn't revolve around you. Grow up" she says. Her words are like a knife straight to the chest, I clear my throat not wanting her to know how much power her words have over me.

"I was 3 years old..." I spit out to her. The look in her eyes changes for a quick second but then goes back to normal. "What do you want?" I ask her and fold my hands over my chest. She smiles, "Their is something I left in that apartment, something I need back" she says calmly.

I chuckle, "You didn't even leave crumbs for the rats, you took everything" I say. She chuckles, "Your wearing them Erza" she says in a gentle voice. Automatically my hands shoot up to my earrings.

She holds her hand out to me, "Give them to me Erza" she orders, the gentleness in her voice completely gone. I take them off and give them to her, "you got what you wanted, now leave" I say firmly.

She smiles, "Just like that you want to kick me out of your life?" she says in a calm voice. "Don't you have questions? Why I left you all those years ago? And why would I come back so suddenly for a pair of earrings?" she says confused.

"You were permanently kick out of my life when you abandoned me 21 years ago...I don't want nor need anything from you" I say in a surprising calm voice. My words hit her like a ton of bricks, she looks down for a couple of seconds then looks up at me again.

"Very well then, if that is what you wish..." she says, she then turns around and begins walking to the door, she stops and turns to me. "I have been watching you for week...So I heard what your going through and all I want to say is that it isn't me...I didn't send that man to shoot you..." she says, my heart drops to my stomach.

"You are going through something really scary right now. Do you really think it is wise to have a child when someone out there you don't know is trying to kill you?" she says in a gentle voice. "Erza, if you do ever need something from me, please don't hesitate to call" she says then puts down a business card on the bathroom turns back to the door and leaves, I hear the front door close.

I fall to the ground and all of a sudden I feel like I cant breath, it feels like I'm drowning and no matter how hard I try to swim to the surface I cant. I let out a long held scream, its so loud I feel the room vibrate, yet I cant hear a sound of it.

My hands grip my head in an attempt to keep the room from spinning but instead it rips my hair out, scarlet pieces of string fall onto the white tiled bathroom floor, making it look like an innocent accident that had gone wrong.

I cant think straight, I don't know what's happening, I'm so confused. My throat is starting to hurt, am I still screaming? My hands are starting to hurt, am I still holding on? But most of all my chest is hurting more and more with every heart beat, am I still breathing?

The voices are screaming in my head, demanding freedom. Demanding to be heard, all of my worries and fears. They scream all at once to be heard, but their is too many of them, I can't concentrate. I can't stop them, no matter how hard I try to silence them they wont be silenced.

I feel hot tears go down my cheeks, I cant stop them even if I tried. I still cant catch my breath, I still cant stop tearing my hair, I still cant silence the voices in my head and worst of all I still cant stop myself from drowning.

"Erza..." I hear a soft voice call out

"Erza..." I hear again

I try and concentrate on the voice, I try and block out all the other loud and demanding voices, for this soft and gentle one.

"Erza can you hear me?" the voice asks, "Yes...I can hear you..." I say in a whisper. "P-Please...help me..." I say trying to hold my tears back.

"Shhh, its alright Erza, I'm here...You don't have to worry now...You need to calm down, your okay" the voice says.

"Sing me a song? Please" I ask. Slowly a soft gentle melody begins to go through my ears. His voice sounds like silk, I don't need to know what he's saying to know he's singing a love song. And slowly I forget about everything, I get lost in his voice and forget about everything.

Slowly I begin to lose my consciousness, everything begins to fade away as I listen to his beautiful melody.

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