I’ll Stumble, I’ll Fall, I’ll Get Up Again: Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten:

The fear was very real, the fear of being left, abandoned. When it happens once, it sticks with you and reminds you that it can happen again.

No matter how hard you try, to let go of the fear, it is there. The realization that it doesn’t take much for what you think will never happen to happen. A quick decision, can change a life.

I looked over what I had written not quite satisfied, so I began again.

Alyssa knew that it didn’t take much for the things you never thought would happen to happen. A decision could turn a world upside down.

She knew from experience what you didn’t think could happen, often did. She had lived that reality, the first time as a girl, the second time when someone else’s recklessness, someone else’s poor decision.

Alyssa had seen how quickly things could change, faster than a blink. She lived through their reality, when she was a little girl, and her Father walked out leaving her, and her pregnant Mom alone, her little sister was born a few weeks later withDown Syndrome. She wouldn’t change her sister fir anything, Anna was the greatest gift they could have received.

I stopped shifting my weight, while making sure Sophie was comfortable. My cat did not want to leave my side, maybe she was afraid I…