When Tomorrow Never Comes Read Free

it?”
    He had hit the nail directly on the head.
    I nod my head. “He’s all I ever think about when I shut my eyes.”
    “How long has it been since…?” Jake then asks.
    “It’s been three months.” I answer. “It still feels like it all happened yesterday though.”
    Both Julie and Jake nod in understanding.
    “Can you tell us why the family you were with let you go. We looked into your background and saw that you had lived with them for three years. They were even going through the process to adopt you. Why did they change their minds?” Jake asks next.
    That was an easier question to answer.
    “They thought that begin somewhere different would be better for me. We had lived across the road from where Cole’s parents and brother lived.” I explain.
    “Honestly I don’t think they wanted me for the fact of my nightmares and the way that Cole’s mother would look at me with such hatred.” I add.
    “Why would his mother hate you?” Julie questions with shock.
    I shrug. “I didn’t save her son. I saw all the warning signs and ignored them thinking that I would be enough to save him. I thought that if I loved him enough he would never want to leave me.”
    “None of it was your fault, Eve. Your boyfriend made his own choices and he left heartbreak behind to replace him. All you can do now is move forward.” Jake replies. “We can get you all the help you need to get past this and we will support you for however long it takes.”
    I nod and hug Julie once more, grateful for their support.
    Jake claps his hands together as we pull away. “Alright, I know this is a lot to take in for tonight but we’ve all got places to be tomorrow morning and if we don’t get a little bit of sleep we’re all going to be cranky.”
    We all chuckle together for a few moments.
    Julie sighs, as our laughter dies down, before she stands to her feet. “Will you be fine the rest of the night?”
    I nod. “I’ll be fine. This isn’t a first for me.”
    They nod their heads and then leave my room slowly.
    I listen as their door down the hall shuts before I get up from my bed and begin pacing back and forth.
    My heart was at war with its self.
    I wanted to trust these people but I just didn’t know if I could. They seemed to genuinely want to get to know me and help me but I had been told these same lies before.
    The others hadn’t been as convincing as this couple.
    Stopping my frantic pacing I sigh, I should have told them how grateful I was for them actually considering helping me.
    Sighing again I move to my door and peek out to see if they had fallen back to sleep yet.
    Their door had a sliver of light shinning at the bottom of it so I slowly make my way out of my room and then towards their door.
    I hold my hand up ready to knock, but stop.
    “She can’t stay here.” Jake whispers from the other side of the door.
    “We just promised her that she could though, she’s going to be completely heartbroken, Jake.” Julie cries softly.
    “Julie, we aren’t prepared to tackle something like this. She needs help that we really can’t provide. I don’t even know how to relate to what she’s been through. She’s better off with someone else.” Jake argues lightly.
    A moment of silence seeps its way in before Julie speaks again. “You know as well as I do that she’s just going to get passed around until she finally turns eighteen. She’s going to fall hard as soon as she’s tossed out.”
    “She’ll be fine, she seems like a fighter.” Jake reassures her.
    That’s the moment I walk back to my room slowly. I didn’t want to hear anymore.  My heart was yet again breaking in two.
    Shutting my door softly I slide down it to sit on the floor as I bury my face into my hands. I couldn’t take much more of this.
    I couldn’t take the lies and false hopes any longer.
    It was cruel.
    Holding back my emotions I sigh softly and then stand back up to my feet before moving over to the three small boxes that I