Sarah's Depression ~Rewritten~, Taylor Collins [the reading list book TXT] 📗

Chapter One- The Death

Sarah’s Depression Rewritten

 

A 17-year-old girl named Sarah Taylor lived on 12 Main Street in a big city in the suburbs. When she was younger, she often gardened with her mother while her father worked. She had a brother named Cid. Cid often chased off bullies for Sarah when she was a child, and never, not once, let them run over her. He was protective, as an older brother should be.

One time, Sarah was pushed down. She scraped her face, and skinned her little knee. The bully was Cid’s age. A kid by the name of Johnny that lived down the street.

Well, Johnny had given trouble to Sarah in the past, however, this had been the first time he had ever pushed Sarah down. Cid bloodied his face to a pulp. However, Johnny never learned his lesson, and continued to bully Sarah mainly behind Cid’s back.

Cid was only a year older than Sarah. He partied a lot, being a young man, and had his fair share of schooling. He was a part-time cook at a fast-food joint. Flipping burgers was not how he planned to live his life, but college wasn’t the route he wanted to go. He would live high upon the mountains with tons of money, and waltz along with his sister. He loved her dearly.

Sarah was going through depression from when she was 13. The family figured out that her mother had cancer. Lily Taylor hadn’t lived a long enough life, and cancer of the lung was going to forever take her away. Sarah believed Cid secretly drank the way he did because he didn’t want to lose his mother, and that was his way to cope. He had grown up not liking to talk about his feelings, and usually kept to himself. Their father worked a lot to support his family. Sarah was mainly left alone to care for her mother.

Lily was the only one she would talk to for years, and she had even quit hanging out with her friends. She was ultimately alone in this with her mother. It had really messed with Sarah’s psyche.

Sarah sat in the living room of her home while rain drizzled outside. She had the same dull expression on her face. The 17-year-old girl hadn’t been the same. Thunder roared outside suddenly, but Sarah was unmoved. She got up from the couch, and went to the kitchen to grab a banana from a bowl of fresh fruit from the counter. She inhaled and exhaled deeply, then ate.

That would be all she had for the rest of the day.

~

 

Lily Taylor was coughing so heavily when her daughter Sarah entered her bedroom. It brought tears to Sarah’s eyes, knowing her mother would die soon. She held her hand, and when Lily could finally speak, she held Sarah and they laid in bed. She played with her daughters’ hair, and talked about life before the storm. How Lily had missed gardening with Sarah, and how she had missed when Cid would come around. Sarah had reassured her that Cid still loved her, that he was dealing with it hard. Sarah even thought Cid was dealing with it harder than she was.

“I love you so much,” Sarah said, trying to hold back sobs. Tears fell from her eyes. “I can’t live without you.”

Lily held Sarah a little tighter, and reassured her that she would be resting in heaven, and that one day her and Sarah would be reunited. It wasn’t the end. Sarah smiled and held onto her mother for dear life.

~

It was dark. Sarah was sitting in the living room in a chair with all the lights off. She was in there, staring at nothingness. She had tears rolling down her face. Her mother’s sickness was all she could think about.

Cid Taylor had had a night full of partying and fucking. His friends had been so wasted. He decided to go home.

Cid was the calm and collected, quiet type of drunk. When he entered the Taylor residence, he turned on the lights.

“AH!” He screamed, noticing his sister sitting there. “Sarah, you scared me.”

Sarah didn’t stop staring blankly at the wall. Cid picked her up, and carried her to her room. He laid her on the bed, covered her up, and kissed her on the forehead.

“Goodnight, Sarah,” he smiled a broken smile at her.

He went to his room, and cried.

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Peter Nickolas Taylor was a workaholic. He was a biochemist at Bladers Lab of Advancing Biochemistry, he arrived home late that night after Cid had went to his room and wallowed in sadness. Peter went straight to his room to find Lily Taylor dead in her bedroom.

What the family didn’t know was that Sarah held her hand the whole time, and once her time was drawing nearer, Sarah whispered something in her mothers’ ear. A sort of confession, and then Lily Taylor was gone.

 

Chapter Two- United In Death Unto Heaven

Sarah looked helplessly around her room, and tears were welling in her eyes. She looked throughout the day, looking desperately for signs that her mother was still around, but to no avail. There was nothing, and she didn't want to admit it, but she knew her mother was gone for good. She looked around. Nothing. 

She checked under her bed. Nothing.

In the closet, perhaps? Nothing.

She even checked the toilet. No signs of Mom.

 

She hadn't spoken a word since Lily passed. Not to her father. Not to Cid. Not to her friends. In fact, she liked to be left alone. She couldn't cope. She blankly and solely stared at walls throughout the day, pretending to listen to the teacher, and prentended that she was dead. 

Hoped even. She didn't know what else to do.

And it had been years of this forsaken life. Two long years 

Imprint

Publication Date: 11-14-2020

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Dedication:
Thank you all for your interest. This book is dearly dedicated to my uncle, Brad. May he rest in heaven.