Mr. Masters looked at Jayden’s hard face and took a deep breath, walking towards the door and let himself out. 

            “Hi to you too dad.”  Jayden said her voice shaking and Lara caught her as she sank to the floor holding her as she erupted into tears. 

            “Jayden, god you are one brave woman.”  Lara said holding her tight as Jayden wiped away the tears.

            “How the ***** did C.J. do that when she was merely 18 god that hurt so much.”  Jayden shivered and Lara knelt and made her look into her eyes.

            “She loved someone else enough to take that step and so do you.  I love you Jayden Masters; and right now I’m very proud that you stood up to the pompous ***** you have for a father.”  Lara said, and Jayden met her eyes.

            “I love you too.”  They sat on the floor for a long time until the strength returned to Jayden’s legs and they went to the bedroom for a long afternoon nap.

Nightfall

Children of the night such a sad tune of strife
Waiting to rhyme their wicked song
A trip without direction, running haphazard down the road
Eternally longing to know what went wrong

This deadly obsession is torturing me
The lies that I’ve seen and breed within my soul
In sad times of madness they long to be free
While deep inside the agonies sustains

Tonight is the eve of my insanity
I’m standing on the boundary of fire
Broken innocence attempts to smash through
Flames fueling the pain’s intense desire

And forever I keep on calling
But still on deaf ears, fall my cries
They ascend  upon a dreamed paradise
A sweet dreamed paradise of lies

So now wade through the slaughter
With your head held high

See what you’ve made of thy lover
To drown in the madness as I die

Then come a time on the soul that you ride
You’ll then know what is to be
To cry in vane like a wild child insane
And no one can save or set you free

The seasons of evil are sewn in their minds
And harness the sad fears of woe
Love is not the martyr that lives on forever
And now it’s too late for my soul

I’m standing on sanity’s too fragile edge
Looking down I know that I can’t fly
Love like addiction is all I can see
And it burns on the fuel of shattered lives

Don’t turn out the lights, there’s demons in the night
They feed on the fears in us all
I’m waiting, I’m craving, defy till the end
I’m over the edge, I’m starting to fall.