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Trying to fight the darkness, I concentrate on the sweet voices and only those two voices.

All of a sudden there is a ringing in my ear.

And I’m no longer able to hear them.

Why can’t I hear them?

I’m slipping away.

The darkness is fading.

I don’t want to go.

I want to stay here listening to the beautiful voice singing to me, but I’m losing the fight.

I’m slipping away, falling until the light covers me completely.

I found my way out of the dark.

I found my way back to them.

To my loves.

To my life

Opening my eyes, I’m greeted by green ones, the color of emeralds, smiling at me. “You came back to us…” The angel with golden hair whispers while leaning over me. This must be the light I followed out of the darkness. Her.

My angel.

My light.

My savior.

Arianna.

Finding my voice, I tell her. “Did you ever doubt I would?”

Then the sweetest sound of her laugh surrounds me as I fall back under.

You came back to us.

You came back to us.

I came back for you…

For the three of you.

ARIANNA

BABY DADDY

“This love is bigger than us.” — A

Three months later

“Please! Help him!” My voice is raw from screaming at the doctors begging for answers and pleading with them to save Sebastian’s life. No one is giving me answers.

The image of him with a tube down his throat and his eyes rolling to the back of his head when he started seizing will haunt me forever.

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