Night
Amsterdam, NY.
Mabel's place
Rubbing her back, "Your eyes are swollen and they're gonna fall off if you don't stop sobbing." Mia consoled her best friend.
Mabel sobbed harder, "Please don't console me anymore, just help me with a glass of poison. I wanna be were he is right now."
"Shh! Don't say that. How can you wish yourself death when you still have a little baby to take care off? You have Bernard, doesn't that feel like Liam is still with you? You both had a son who looks just like him. You should think about that. Bernard should be your priority now. So forget about Liam, let the dead bury themselves." Mia snapped.
Clutching her hands on her hair, Mabel wept and wept and wept her eyes out bitterly. After she received a phone call from an old friend from her former resident in LA and she was told that her longtime boyfriend's body was found dead and lifeless by the seaside with so many gathering taking videos of him, Mabel hasn't been herself since that very moment. She fainted, woke up, passed out again severally. Her friend Mia whom received a strange call from an unknown citizen, quickly rushed down to her place.
"It's all my fault," She cursed herself. "If I had woken up before him that morning, I wouldn't have allowed him to fly out of the country."
"But you didn't know all these were gonna happen, did you?" When Mabel started sobbing again, Mia pulled her into a hug and patted her back, "It's alright, calm down. It's not the end of the world yet." Mia really felt bad for her best friend. She can't explain the path life has taken her through.
"Oh God, why did you have to take his soul so early? Why didn't you chose my soul over his? He has suffered a lot and left to search for greener pastures for his son and I, only to end up losing his life, oh gracious heaven why? Just why? Why?"
"Everything has a reason why it happened, okay? I understand what you're going through right now. I feel your pains but you still have to understand one thing that fate has a purpose of doing things, Mabel." Mia stated.
Pausing for a while, she continued, "Maybe or maybe not Liam was probably not destined to be your forever man."
Lifting her head, Mabel stopped weeping and gave her a strange look, "Wgat is that supposed to mean? What are you insinuating? That we ain't met for each other from the beginning? You-"
"No, don't get it twisted, girl." Holding her hands in hers, Mia sighed, "Liam loved you even to the last day of his breath, of course he really did. But- you can't predict why this happened all of a sudden."
Mabel burst into tears again and crashed on Mia's shoulder, "I made him suffer several times when he tried to reunite with me. It's not up to a month since we reconciled and he left again. Forever, why is life so harsh on me?"
Running her fingers through Mabel's hair, Mia helplessly shook her head and sighed, "Everything will be alright again. Believe in yourself that will all these bad things happening, you can still make it through. And stop casting app blames on yourself. Liam's death isn't your fault."
Just then, baby Bernard woke up and started wailing.
Mia sighed before pulling away, "I'll handle him." She stood up and made her way towards the baby's cot. Now she's not only gonna console Mabel but her baby too.
Mabel is so downcasted, frustrated and helpless at the moment. As at now, her mindset is very vague and unable to focus on certain things, not even her little baby Liam had left her with.
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