The first sun, Cletus, set hours ago but the others were still burning brightly in the sky. Mark looked over the edge fearfully. He knows what’ll happen in a few minutes. He’s not afraid of his life’s end, only of what will happen to his family and friends. That’s when she appeared.

She wasn’t the cute popular girl that everyone would’ve expected. Plain. Simple. Brown hair blowing in the wind. Soft green eyes staring into his black ones. Not exactly the skinniest girl in the world but she made it work.

That’s when he decided he’d have to jump. He readied himself. How you can ready yourself to jump off a cliff I don’t know, maybe he was stalling, the point is he did it. He turned to look at the girl one more time when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

“Don’t Mark.” She pleaded. He averted his eyes away from her.

“I have to Alex.” He replied. And he jumped. It was then he noticed her hand still holding his sweatshirt. For the first time in months he wasn’t angry at them, he was angry at himself.