“This…” He pinches the safety pin hanging from his chain. “Was my promise not to kill myself. I wanted to so many times, thought about it so many times, tried but I couldn’t go through with it. I knew it would devastate Mom, Pen, Angel, maybe even Dad, although now I know it would have. The safety pin is a reminder that my hurt would be someone else’s if I did it. I didn’t do it, but my thoughts of it never stopped. They were there…just biding their time. Until you.”
