With tears in her eyes, she stared at the tear stained letter she had written to her mother and little siblings. She just couldn't do it anymore. It was always there in her mind, haunting her, breaking her, tormenting her. She had been too brave and strong for too long. She gingerly placed the letter on the bridge, with a rock to keep it from blowing away. She looked down the at the ground below the bridge before stepping back, trying to control her breathing. The young redhead put her hands through her hair before walking back to the ledge of the bridge. "Don't think about it. Don't think about, just do it."
With all that had happen in the last twenty four hours, she couldn't fight anymore. Her stepfather was gone, her mother seemed like she hated her for doing what she did and her siblings seemed to refuse to take a side. Elise did what she promised to do; keep her 'father' from hurting any of them like he had hurt her, provide for the family, and more than anything stay strong for them. For most of her life, she had been strong, always fighting against the man her mother married only a year after their father died. And, now? Now, she was tired of fighting. Without thinking, the girl removed her heels and coat and tossed them to the side as she climbed over the railing of the local bridge. She didn't look down at the water below, she could. Instead she looked forward towards the horizon, seeing the way the sun was rising. She sighed peacefully before taking one step off and letting herself fall. There was no going back, all she could do was look up as the bridge began getting farther away from her and the cool breeze from the water began getting closer. And then, everything went black.
It was in this one week that four young adults were losing their lives for one reason of another. Two of cancer, one from a car accident, and one from suicide. For most, this would be the end of a very short life but for these young sould. They are being given a second chance at life for one reason or another. For four young adults, they are being given that exact chance. Something about each of these humans are remarkable. In one way or other, they are worth being saved to see another day. To live another day of their life. For them, time is being rewound to exactly three months before their time of death, and each are being given a guardian angel to watch over them. What they don't know is that, the guardian angel is someone they have met once before whether it was a brief meeting or something more. What is the angels' job you may ask? Their job is quite simple, keep their human alive. Make them want to keep fighting or to keep living their life. To slowly heal them, physically and/or mentally. By any means necessary. But, as most have asked themselves, will they be able to change the past?
"C'mon, Elise! We're going out drinking, you know you want to." The smiling redhead, just chuckled as she rolled her eyes and shook her head towards the group of five other young adults. Made up of her best friends and co-workers. "As much as I would love to. I can't I have to work tonight and you guys know that." Her best friend, Alex just rolled her eyes before laying her head on her shorter friend's shoulder. "You always are working! Come on, have some fun!"
The young lady looked up at her friend before looking back at the time on her phone. "Me? Have fun? Alex, you know that's bullshit." The brunette rolled her eyes before feeling her phone vibrate, Elizabeth raised an eyebrow as her friend scoffed. "I have to work too." The others in the group sighed in disappointment, knowing that the best friends had to get going for their shift. "Exactly, so let's get going. Jake hates when we're late." Alex just nodded as they both began their quick walk to the club not too far from where they were downtown. "Eliza, wait!" The redhead turned towards her other best friend, Thomas with a smile as she looked towards him to see his hands were behind his back. "I know you're birthday is months away but, um...here. I saw it at work and I automatically thought of you--Is that weird? That's weird isn't it? Look, if you don't like it just let me know and--and I'll get you something else but..--"
"Tommy, I really have to get going. Whatever it is, I swear I'll love it." She assured him as he handed her a box and opened it to reveal a necklace with a blue stone in the middle. Eliza looked up at the man with a large smile on her face. "Do you like it?"
"Like it? Tommy, I love it. It's perfect, thank you."
"I glad you like it. Here I'll put it on for you." He undid the hook before fixing it around her neck and placing it loosely around her neck. She looked down at it before turning around to hug her friend. "It's beautiful, Thomas. I really do love it." Thomas was about to speak before being interrupted by Alexandra. "Hello! We gotta go, like now!" Eliza just let go of her friend and started running towards a waiting Alex, forgetting to look back and say goodbye to her group of friends.
The two girls made it to the back of the gentlemen's club and got to their stations to start getting ready. While her most of her friends hated her job, she did what she had to do in order to make ends meet and while they all wanted to help, she didn't allow them to. She didn't need their money and/or sympathy. While her friends all made their way to sleep, the young Hispanic girl was getting ready for her night job. She set her bag down at her station that had all her makeup, hair products, everything she needed in it before she started getting ready.
Ten minutes later she was having one of her coworkers tighten up her corset just as her name was being called of the microphone. As she made her way to the stage there was one person that caught her eye and that was her lover, Mario standing with the band. While she felt something for the man, she wouldn't exactly call it love. Not at all. Right now, Elizabeth saw them as 'friends with benefits' more than anything. She could hear the men cheer as she stepped on stage and she could see Mario give her a look a disapproval before starting the music. The man wanted what was best for her, he wanted her to leave the club and never come back but, Annie couldn't do it and risk giving up her lifestyle of luxury and expensive things.
And for the next six hours, 'Desiree' gave into the demands of her male clients before finally being able to leave a go back home. Mario had to sneak his way out through the backdoor, seeing that their boss would not like the pair being together, for lack of a better word. And they knew that, the only two people who knew about them were Alexandra and Thomas and the only reason they knew was because they caught the pair. When they got to her apartment, they didn't waste anytime to start showing their affection.
Later that morning, Elizabeth could barely feel Mario kissing her neck gently as he spoke to her. "Eliza." She just groaned softly before settling back into her large bed. "Beautiful, your phone was ringing." The young girl sighed before reaching for the phone on her bedside and seeing the text from her boss from her day job at the bookstore. She just sighed before sitting up in her bed with the blanket against her chest. "Don't call me that, it's not the truth and I hate lies." She got out of her bed and slipped on her robe. The Hispanic man just chuckled as he moved towards his lover and wrapped his arms around her and whispered in her ear. "You're the only one who thinks it's a lie though." He said with a raised eyebrow as Elizabeth nudged out of his strong arms and made her way to her closet. "And, I thought you said that you would quit. You do not need to do this to yourself. I mean, you have your family, friends,.... me. You--.."
As the girl looked through her closet she looked up at the ceiling and sighed. She wanted Mario, she did but she was not willing to get hurt again. She wished that for once, a man would just want to stay the way they were. The would sleep together and then act like nothing ever happened between them. She turned towards him and sighed. "Mar, you're my friend and I adore you. But..--"
"I know, I know. You don't want a relationship right now, you don't want to ruin what we have, you don't want to get hurt, and so on and so forth. I get it, I know." He said as he grabbed his shirt from off the floor and slipped it on. When he slid on his black jeans he looked towards the Hispanic girl before sighing and chuckling softly. "One day, you're going to look back and wonder why you were such a bitch." Elise just scoffed as she watched him walk to the door. She went to the door behind him and tapped his shoulder. "I know what I'm doing, Mario. Get some business of your own and stay out of mine."
As he walked down the stairs he turned towards him in annoyance. "Yea, whatever. By the way, you must have forgotten that you're family's just next door." She looked to the apartment door next to her before looking back at Mario who had a raised eyebrow as he walked to his car. As he drove off, she just slammed the door and walked back to her bedroom to go take a shower and get dressed.
Twenty minutes later, she was out of the shower and almost done getting ready. Her makeup was all done along with her freshly dried hair as she slipped on her jeans that hugged her hips. She looked over her reflection with a small smile and shrug as she grabbed her jacket and purse. The girl walked next door to make sure that her siblings were either at school or on their way and when she entered the dirty apartment, the smell of alcohol instantly made her gag. She looked in the living room to see her younger sister looked down as she picked up her backpack while being talked down to by their stepfather. The more she listened, the more it reminded her of how he spoke to her in that way when she was Sophia's age. Sophia looked towards her sister and shook her head telling her to stay where she way and not to intervene like she always did.
But, she couldn't just listen to her rapist try to talk to her sister the same way. Elizabeth huffed out before storming into the room and pushing the man away from her sister. "Stay the hell away from her!" She looked up into the man's gray, chilling eyes all while he looked towards the younger Thompson sister. "Get to school, Sophia. We'll finish this talk when you get home."
"Like hell you will. You will never get to her as long as I'm still breathing." Alexander just looked down at the woman trying to challenge him. "Now, beautiful. What have I told you about disrespect?" The girl just slightly shrugged, knowing exactly what was going to happen. While he raised his hand, she got a smirk on her face. "You know, the second you hit me is the second I finally have the proof I need to get you locked up and away from my mother."
The man lowered his hand before moving it to the girl's jaw, roughly making her look him in the eyes. "If your mother wanted to leave me, why hasn't she? She could walk right out that door if she really desired to, my love."
Eliza jerked her head away from his grip as she back away slowly. "You're an asshole! You know exactly why she can't move..--" Alexander just grinned as the young girl moved away from him. He sat down in his chair, looking over to the girl before speaking. "Well, of course I do. I just wanted to make it clear that she is never leaving this house and neither are these children. You? You just got lucky enough to move next door." Disgusted with the man, Elizabeth just grabbed her coat that was on the floor before heading towards the door. "Oh, don't forget to close the door all the way, beautiful." Eliza slammed the door behind her as she headed down the cement steps and towards her car. She saw Alexandra's car in the driveway next to hers, meaning that her best friend more than likely still sleeping with her boyfriend and their boss, Jake.
Not paying much mind to the thought, the girl just slid into her car. As she fixed her mirror, she could see her stepfather staring out the window. She just smirk as she gave him the bird and started driving into town. It didn't take too long to get to the bookstore and when she did get her car parked in the employees' parking lot in the back of the two story brick building. She stepped out on the car, having her heels slam on the cement as she tossed her nearly gone cigarette on the ground and stepped on it before heading inside the large bookstore to get started on her shift.