Memories

Tori held out her scraped hands, they weren't bleeding or anything but the top layer of skin was peeling.

"She pushed me down." Tori gulped. "Like Blake."

"I'm sure she didn't mean to."

"She doesn't know." Tori replied.

"You never told her?" Hunter asked shocked.

"No...is it so bad that I didn't want to tell her because it would always make me feel guilty. I hung that rope there, he wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for me." Tori answered.

"It was his choice, not your fault. You were there for him, I was too, it's not like he didn't have anybody." Hunter reassured her.

Tori leaned against him and held back her tears. It wasn't worth crying over but she was scared, she had lost one friend to drinking, she didn't want to lose another. Brooke was her only female friend.

"I thought I was over it but I'm not." Tori stated.

"It's in the back of everyone's mind. No one will ever get over it. He was my brother, a friend to everyone and your boyfriend for the first part then he was your abuser." Hunter said.

"Did I ever tell you why I'm alone?" Tori asked.

"Nope."

"My mom and dad were hit by a drunk driver. They didn't die on impact but their injuries were so bad they died a day later in the hospital, in the room next to the drunk driver who hit them. Her name was Gabby McPherson. She was my babysitter when I was little and no one ever expected her to break the law for anything." Tori explained.

When she had finished, she fell back into the pillows at the top of her bed. She didn't bury her face in them but she did let a tear fall from her eyes. The memory of her parents was saddening. She was only four years old, she didn't understand that she would not be returning home with her mother until she was older.

"That's when I was sent to live with my Uncle Tyler. He was single, my aunt died from cancer like a year before. I didn't have to watch that." Tori continued.

"I was fourteen when my parents died." Hunter stated.

"I thought that Blake was the adopted one?"

"Not exactly, he was but I was too. One of my distant relatives adopted us both. My mom went crazy and died after my dad tried to snap her out of it. He committed suicide, thinking it was his fault my mother went crazy and died." Hunter explained.

"Do you think Brooke's okay?" Tori asked, stopping the tears.