Catherine Rebecca Conway, age in the mid-thirties with blue eyes and brown hair up to her shoulders with blond highlights and the only known mother to Benjamin Conway and the only woman Principal David Hartwood had ever married, had had a mental breakdown and her medications had been caught unstable with her mixed emotions in her head and had been rushed to the hospital by an ambulance at 1:08 PM on a Wednesday.

At 1:11 PM on the same Wednesday she was pronounced dead via an overdose of medication taken moments before she had left the house to pick up her only son from school because of his new out-of-school-suspension caused by him upper-cutting Eric Decker in the jaw because the gamer-nerd Eric Decker had (deserved it) mentioned Rachel Harter.

And, despite the consequences, he still didn’t regret almost breaking Eric Decker’s jawbone.

Principal David Hartwood paid for the funeral three days later, a Saturday in which there was wailing and crying and heartbreak and absolutely no Benjamin Conway or David Hartwood to be seen because they were the only people to see the beginning of the end of her life and were secretly on the verge of suicide.

Especially Benjamin Conway.

I have nothing left. he wrote down frantically, blue eyes watering up with swelling tears of whatever he was feeling. My mom’s dead, everyone’s apologizing over nothing, I’m getting sued by the Decker family for his fucking jaw, Tiffany fucking Stelmach is out for a social status via me being her boyfriend, everyone is fucking pissed at me because of me fucking Whitney Banks, Seth McCray found out about me fucking his ex-girlfriend and wants to kick my fucking ass, and fucking Rach’ won’t fucking talk to me anymore because she’s fucking moved on and I fucking NEED her to fucking survive now…

Staring down at the paragraph-long sentence, he gulped down a breathe and realization finally slapped him across the face as if it was God and God wanted Benjamin Conway to finally have realization strike him on the face and so God did hit him for the sake of the world (sad thing was that Benjamin Conway was anything but religious and came up with that all on his own, which slightly made him question his sanity).

“What am I doing to myself…?”