I'll Never Stop by DC Renee

Author:DC Renee [Renee, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DC Renee
Published: 2023-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Eliza

“OH, LIZZY,” MY mom said as she stroked my hair, letting me cry into her chest as she cradled me like a small baby. I needed that. Maybe I’d always needed that. It didn’t matter how old a person got, they’d always need their mom, and they’d always be their mom’s baby.

I remember when I was a kid, and my mom would call me her baby. I’d tell her I wasn’t a baby; I was a big kid. She’d hug me tight and tell me, “You’ll be eighty years old and still be my baby.”

Just like right now. I needed my mother’s love and comfort. And hell, maybe I should have told her back then and let her rock me just like now. It was cathartic.

“I’m so sorry, sweetheart,” she told me over and over. When my tears had run dry, and I felt a little calmer, I straightened up.

My mom took both my hands in hers and looked at me with a mixture of despair and something akin to awe.

“I’m so sorry, my sweet girl. I’m so sorry you went through that,” she said, her voice strained with pain. I wasn’t a mom, but I knew enough to know it was jarring to a mother when you knew your daughter had been hurt and you had been powerless to stop it. Maybe that was another reason I hadn’t told her what had happened. I didn’t want her to feel responsible for her inability to keep those assholes from doing what they’d done to me.

“I wish you’d have told me. I wish I could have at least been there for you, let you cry in my arms.”

“You just did,” I pointed out.

“A little late, no, Lizzy? This has clearly eaten at you for all these years. But look at you. You’re so strong, my beautiful, brave girl,” she said, her anguish still apparent, but now I understood the awe I’d seen in her eyes. “They didn’t break you, Lizzy. They built you up into this amazing person. So many people could have easily been destroyed by what happened, but not you. Look at you; you shine. You’re a star. You showed them and anyone else who dared to laugh at you. You turned what had happened to you into an opportunity for success.”

“That was luck,” I told her.

“No one is handed luck. They’re handed opportunities. How you handle them is the lucky part.”

“You’re saying that if it weren’t for that humiliation, I wouldn’t be where I am today?” I asked, a little shocked.

“Every event in our life shapes the next event. You left that school in a hurry, but you found Anna. And now, I think I understand all the sudden changes in your appearance that year. You want to admit that those happened because of Finn and his friends, or you want to pretend they were a coincidence?”

“It was because of them,” I answered without hesitation.

She nodded. “You’re beautiful inside and out, Lizzy. But look where your outer beauty has gotten you.

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