It was her fault!

It's been three weeks and Samantha was still not talking to Grace. Grace had seen her daughter struggling to cope with life as a blind woman. She had regretted her actions more so because Samantha didn't report her and had taken the blame. She was discharged from the army​ dishournorably, all her benefits where taken, she received nothing.

Her parents where rich that was nothing, but life without friends was unbearable, she talked to no one. She saw no one, literally and she became depressed.

One day she decided, enough was enough, things where already done, she was blind, she needed​ to accept that and ask for help if she wanted to be independent.

She called her Mom, but there was no response, she called Lisa through the intercom and got a reply.

"come to my room"

When Lisa finally reached her room, Samantha asked, "where is my mom?"

"I think, she is in her room"

"I'll call her for you"

"No take me there"

Lisa helped Samantha to her mother's room, it was quiet but water was running, she must be bathing.

Lisa knocked on the door but there was still no response,she open the door and saw Grace in her pool of blood, she had slit her wrist severely. Lisa screamed, startling Samantha.

"What is it?" Samantha asked, her eyes flew open like she could see. She was terrified, she needed confirmation because she too could smell the bloody stench from the bathroom.

" lt's madam, she is covered with a plastic bag"

" Hurry up, call an ambulance" Samantha shouted.

Lisa left to make the call.

Samantha knelt on the floor and crawled to the bathroom, she could feel her palms getting wet from the mixture of blood and water sipping from the bathtub to the floor, she crawled and found her mother's legs, she was in a sitting position and had her back to the bathtub. She navigated her hands on her mother's body and found her hand. She felt her pulse, she had done this in the army many times, but there was nothing.Her mother was dead, just like those people in the army, dead.

*******

Samantha sat on the hospital bench with her wet clothes. She couldn't cry, the tears would just not come out.

A Doctor with his entourage came to her.

" Miss Samantha, we are sorry but your mother was a 'brought in dead case'. We will do an autopsy and find the cause of her death."

The doctor was still talking to Samantha, who paid little or no attention to him. She bite her lower lip until she tasted blood.