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Tree Bark

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This is it. The smooth bark of the tree was cool to her sweaty palms. The tree reached high into the air, passed even the cloud layer. Then again, the cloud layer had lowered by 50% in the past year. That’s why she was doing this. Not just the clouds though. Seas were drying, the moon was moving away from the earth, the sun closer, days got hotter by the minute. For example, this morning she could go out without breaking into a sweat, but now one body part outside a cooled area would become tan in a matter of minutes. The sun would collide today, she knew it. So this tree, with its cool white birch bark, and long reaching branches was her escape. She just had to do it. Its arms reached out toward her, as if asking for a hug. And so she answered its plead. She fell into its arms, and then felt dizzy. The world spun around her, making her vision go blurry. A tight rope was around her neck. The tree tricked her, this wasn’t a hug it was a murder. Its cool bark spun around her again, why wouldn’t it end?
It’s toying with you, she told herself, and the tree is making you live more pain, being punished for the coward’s way out. She realized something then, the noose was gone, and she was just the tree. Except it wasn’t a tree at all, and it wasn’t the apocalypse, she was in her father’s arm, and tears streamed down her face. Her heart then lurched, and she remembered. It may not be the apocalypse for everyone else, but for her…
She heard the painful screech, what she thought was a raven, was a heart meter. A straight line, hooked up to someone; someone beautiful with a perfectly chiseled face. Mother; that’s what happened; Mother, she was gone, and it was apocalypse again, all over, the tree, the bark, the noose, the sun, the clouds, and the moon; all over. Then she saw all black, and a stabbing pain flooded from her back through the rest of her body, but mostly her heart. Why father, why me, why mother, why brother? Why?
Okay, so what happened is the girl attempted to commit suicide but was stopped, she tried because her mother died of cancer. He father had stopped her, and was angry at her choice, so he lost his temper and killed both her and her brother, then himself.
Anyway yeah, confusing stuff, but it comes clear when you get the story.
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Father is toruring the daughter and the mother is missing