mariions:
she accepts the cup without comment. it bothers marion that she feels like this — that it affects her children. ( her other children.) but more than most days today is the reminder of failure. thoughts she doesn’t dare to indulge in like, what would kennedy have looked like if she were here? is she out there? is she SUFFERING? does she have help? is she loved?
the cup’s warmth spreads from fingers to palms as she watches the liquid within. sometimes she wonders how she hasn’t already become a burning effigy to her elder three. hopeless. ❛ you know — when you were born… you had such fair hair. more than it is now. i knew it’d darken slightly when you grew older. and it was so different from your siblings. so i named you hazel. i did. your father didn’t believe me. did i ever tell you that? ❜
seeing her mother hurting had probably been one of the most difficult things in hazel’s life. it was almost to the point where she could not remember a life when marion was happy, all their old memories of the happy family had now been replaced. the twenty years old leaned her head on her mother’s shoulder as she spoke, a small smile on her lips as she told her once again the story behind her name. “mhm, you have, but i like to hear it.”















