The Death of Susan Mississippi by Sequoia Gallatin (first e reader .TXT) 📕

to understand, Maya. She has my baby! I can't just leave her. Please understand."
"NO!" I scream as the thunder starts up again. "I don't care! Just leave! I want you out of my life! For good." I choke back a sob at the end.
"I'm so sorry, Maya." He tries to touch my arm. I push him away.
"Don't touch me!" I cry, wrapping my arms around myself.
"Goodbye Maya." He whispers as he walks away, his arm around Diana's shoulder. I fall to the ground,sobbing, once they are out of sight. My brother comes and puts his arms around me. I put my head on his shoulder as I sob.
"It's okay." He whispers in my ear. "It'll be okay. I still love you, sis."
"I love you too, brother." I whisper. I feel someones hand on my shoulder.
"Don't worry, Maya." Tarren says, squeezing my shoulder. "It won't hurt forever."
I shake my head. "It will." I say. "I know it will."
"I'm sure that Diana hadn't known that Brian and Maya were together. I just know it!" I could hear Brinny saying to Elliott.
"She did." I say aloud to Brinny. "She knew we were together. She told me so."
"That bitch!" Brinny curses. "But I swear Maya," She looks at me. "I swear that I didn't know that she- that they would do that."
"It's fine, Brinny." I say. "Really it is. I know that none of us knew they'd do that." I sigh. "If you all don't mind, I think I'll go to bed now."
They all nod.
"Thank you. Goodnight." I go to my tent and lay down. A little while later someone's at the door.
"Maya, may I come in?" It's Tarren.
"Sure." I say. He unzips the door and comes in. He doesn't have a shirt on but luckily he has pants on. I sit up.
"Hi." I say.
"Hey." He smiles at me.
"What you want?" I ask, smiling back at him.
"Oh there's something I've been wanting to do for a while now." He says, creeping close to me. I take in a deep breath as he says,
"Please let me do this? At least this once?" I nod. I've also always liked Tarren. If it wasn't for Brian I'd say I'd have liked him the most but Brian was first. Stupid, Lying, Cheating, Backstabbing, Heartbreaking Brian. He takes my face in his hands. "Hold still." He whispers as he softly presses his lips to mine. The kiss starts off slow at first but once he seems more certain of me liking it, it gets deeper and deeper. He slides his arms around me as he pushes me toward the ground, his hands on my back. His lips explore my body. He kisses my neck and up my jaw. He lifts my shirt up and places his cold hand on my stomach. I shiver under his touch but I don't
care. I'm enjoying this just as much as he is. I wrap one of my legs around his waist and pull him closer. He lifts my shirt over my head. And I can feel his lips on my stomach as they explore up higher and higher. His hands go down and unbutton my jeans. I lift my body as he slides them off of me. I unbutton his too. He smiles at me as he pulls them down off his hips and tosses them to the ground. He wraps his arms around my waist as his lips meet mine again, and we turn in a movement of kissing and touching as we meld together.
Chapter 4: The canyon of scorn

The next morning I wake up to find Tarren sleeping next to me, and I remember last night. I smile as I run my fingers through his hair and know that he is mine. Nobody else's, just mine. He opens his eyes and smiles at me. I can still hear the rain and I realize that last night was The storm of Betrayal but also it was a little Island of Hope on that one big storm. Tarren wraps his arms around me and pulls me close.
"Good morning." He yawns.
I giggle. "Good morning sleepy head." I kiss him.
"How was your sleep?"
He smiles at me. "The best." Then he chuckles. "Whenever I WAS sleeping." I giggle. "How was yours?"
"Even better." We smile at each other.
"Not possible" He whispers, pulling me closer. We kiss for a while. We can hear the rain hitting our tent really hard. "It's really raining, isn't it?" He pulls away.
"I think," I say, looking up at the sky. "That it's the sky crying. She knew about last night and now she's crying." I can feel his gaze on my face and look away, embarrassed.
"I'm sorry Maya." He whispers, leaning in so that I can feel his breath on my skin. I look at him and smile.
"It's fine." I lean in and kiss him and he pulls me down on him.
We hear someone at the door. "Maya, Tarren. If you guys are hungry we have breakfast for you. We luckily have a tarp and everyone's sitting out here right now if you want to join us. We wont be leaving for a while though."
"Thanks brother." I say to Michael my older brother. "We will be out in a few."
"Okay." He says and I hear him walking off. This was going to be a long day.


I sometimes wish my life was different, like it's hard to find out that the guy you've been in love with forever is going to be a father. Then once you start dating him and he tells you that he loves you and you think it's all going to be all right and you two will last forever he just turns around and stabs you in the back. I wish I had learned all of this with Brad.
Bradley Keegan: My good for nothing ex-boyfriend. I thought I was in-love with him. I was in-love with Brian at the time, too. I had always been in-love with Brian but I didn't think he loved me back that way so I decided to date Brad. He was so sweet and funny and amazing. He was one of the best looking guys in the 8th grade class. I was 11 almost 12 at the time and in the 6th grade when he asked me out. We dated for about a year when the last day of school he sauntered up to me and said,
"Maya, I really like you but I think we should be just friends. I'm going into highschool and your just a 7th grader. I'm sorry but I think we should break up. I hope we can still be friends." Then he just walked away and out of my life. Him and his family moved that summer. I didn't find out until it was too late that that was the only reason why he broke up with me, and not because I was just a 7th grader and he was in highschool. I sobbed and sobbed. I didn't find out until this year that it had actually been my brother and Brian who had told him that he should break up with me. We both would have been fine with a long-distance relationship but apparently they thought it was the best for the both of us. He did cause they were too of his best friends.

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Publication Date: 06-30-2012

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Dedication:
To all of those amazing writers out there who have given me the strength to try writing my own stories. Thank you