Who came up with the word forever? Why would someone male a word that fill people with a sense of false hope that always ends in tears and pain. Nothing lasts forever. Friends, happiness, love, and i could go on and on talking my head off about the pain that word gives me, but whats the use? Everyone knows that already. But i never did. I mean, of course I knew that nothing literally lasts forever, but i thought my life would stay on its same, happy track.

I slowly turned onto smaller and smaller roads until my creaky old off white Toyota came to a stop in front of the ranch house. The moment i opened my door, the dirt road blew a flurry of a dust storm right where i was sitting.

After getting thrown into a coughing fit, i took a deep breath and slid off the drivers seat. The hot, cactus filled Arizona desert around me fuelled my exhaustion to the point where i wondered if someone could get heat stroke within minutes of standing under the insufferable sun above my head.

Once my rough hands were filled with piles of boxes, i shut my trunk and looked at the old house. The cracked paint on the walls and shaded windows looked almost the exact opposite of ‘welcoming’, to say the least, and i expected less of the inside.

With three swift motions, i knocked on the door.

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