REBORN

   She sighed slightly slipping out of the pool to do some testing with chlorine versus the lake’s natural self once again for the test didn’t seem to be enough for one attempt. No, she required more tests. There was a reason why she had chosen to be a Marine Biologist (who got ‘lucky’ of getting sent to a lake; not an ocean or sea.) and it wasn’t because she loved the animals (which she does) and wanted to save the ocean (which she also does) but it was a way of getting close to what took her son’s life. It was Howard but the water had betrayed him and allowed itself to be wrathful enough to drown him. The boy rejoiced every time he entered waters before his timely end.

   Soaked like a wet dog and quickly began getting dried off for she had a surprise in her office. Once that was taken cared of she had marched to her lab,

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   “ Yes, yes, and yes. It’ll be taken care of but please let me have my break okay? I’ve worked seven hours straight. I need to eat as well.” Cecilia smiled sweetly up at her boss before closing the glass door and pulling the blinds shut. Sighing rather loudly (for as of late Cecilia has been sighing a lot more than usual.) Her worn out green eyes fixated onto a simple yet decorated box. It showed turtles and rather cute starfishes on it which was an odd pattern yet it was adorable. Delicate fingers danced upon its shaped before opening carefully quite afraid of hat could lurk inside such a lovely box. An animal was the first thought due to her love for creatures.

   Yet, this gift was rather different. Breathtaking. A note. Mother’s Day...? “Huh, I forgot that I wasn’t really around for it... I guess he forgot too. It’s okay... Thank you- w...w-what?” Eyes widening when seeing the exact things that made her son once happy in his breathing life.  Note gently placed aside while her free hand took the first trophy he had ever won as a swimmer. Second place.

   “... I remember this one...”

   “ Mom! Mom! Look- look! I did it!” The boy grinned as his mother had spun him around laughing loudly yelling how proud she was for him. Smooching his soft WARM cheek. 

      Nearly dropping it from sudden flashbacks she placed it on top of the note. Tears were already formed at first sight of those beautiful things BEN had slaved away to win. Next was a medal then two, then one, ribbons, and then more trophies that became from second to first place. 

 “Hey, mom, did you see that? I got first place! I was soooo fast. They were eating dust when I got done, huh?” Snickering as he talked with a side of light trash talking as Cecilia - or what was ONCE Cecilia smiled brightly yet the boy had failed to notice the first mark of their downfall. A bruise lightly covered with makeup.

   Inhaling another breath Cecilia held the trophies and the note close to her trembling form weeping sliding down a wall. "I love you kid.” Laughing softly wondering how he had gotten things before realizing he had to enter that house that stayed still. She hasn’t been back there and her nightmares have actually decreased insanely. He went in that house. Her son. Who feared the same man that killed them the first time and might even do it again soon- perhaps. Ocean dressed as Cecilia’s tears became a tsunami. 

   For a few weeks Cecilia had been sent off to check the coral reefs near Mexico making sure they were still thriving and as the company loved her hard work, they paid for her and few of the well-loved employees for an afternoon swimming with sharks time. Wade, Cecilia, Dirk, and Avaline were the only lucky ones.

 Sadly, Joel who had stayed behind back home to work on computers often got updates from Avaline that Cecilia and Wade were stuck underwater and kept running out of air as the Coast Guard was being sent to get them.

  Soon, after weeks without any texts sent to her son, Cecilia had allowed the boy to know that she was in Wade’s apartment (just a floor lower) and she’s fine but won’t be do anything physical for quite a long time. Cecilia laid back in Wade’s leather chair hissing in pain as the man cleaned out her infected shark wound. 

  “I’m sorry.”

  “You didn’t cause this.”

  “He’s going to kill me because I didn’t keep you safe.”

It hurts, it hurts a lot. Everything in his body felt as if it were set on fire. The fact that Ben was even still awake and standing was miracle. Breathing raggedly, he was awkwardly walking forward using a wall as support, he wasn’t sure where he was exactly, and everything looked blurred. If only he could die, he wouldn’t be in this world of pain unfortunately for him, ghosts can’t die. Before he could take another step he felt the world spin for a moment and he blacked out.

  “BEN! BEN! Oh gosh..”

  Watching the boy drop onto the floor automatically going into panic mode. Rushing over to the fallen figure wiping the sleepiness out of her eyes and pushed the wrinkled lab coat to the side in order to pick the boy up. “Oh, oh, what to do. Just hang in there okay?” Surprised that he made it to her work. Rushing to her lab where it contained a mini kitchen, bed for she worked nights, a bathroom containing a shower, and many other things to be like an office without having an office. Placing him onto the clean bed and began checking over his body for anything that could be fixed. His mother, could she even call herself that? Breathing heavily at the thought of him actually dying.

   Hacking liquid substances into her sink not looking for she did not turn lights on in her decent sized bathroom. For a while, Cecilia has felt ill and wasn’t sure what was causing her to be sick. Staying home from work with enough information to do such things, avoiding going anywhere that included groups of people, and hasn’t been eating in the last 48 hours. Pain throbbing her stomach and brain but now her lungs begged for medicine.

  Medicine wasn’t helping.

  Nothing was.

 “F-fuck..” Continuing to cough blood in her sink needing help.

  Her younger brother still enrolled in high school had recently dropped off a game she had not seen in ages asking her if he could play it (granted if it worked for some games he brought many never worked and she had the only N64 laying around in her decent sized apartment.) and told the 17-year-old boy soon but for now work had come first.

 Sending him a goodbye and a hug before closing the sky blue door allowing no one entrance once she placed the insane amount of locks on. Couldn’t help but wonder why she had that many and the woman never gave an answer. None of the medications had worked like they should slightly pissing off the woman who stopped buying them recently.

  “Hmm... Wouldn’t hurt to take a break and play this game. Wonder where he had found this since it cost’s lots of money on Amazon.” With that, Cecilia quickly got the game system hooked up and made a batch of green tea perfect for a calming mood. The system hooked into her rather nice flat screen, Cecilia entered the game into its rightful slot after getting dust out with an air compress can.

   shit dude.

  all of you asking where I went?

  Been working on two new blogs for my main muses.

  Cecilia is still alive but RN her blog is in NEED of refreshing sooo...

  Yeah.