ALBERT'S P.O.V. The day eventually arrived. The day I yearned and prayed, for so many agonizing nights I spent on the cold and lonely streets of Bluefield. The day that life remembered it was high time it also brought me a little measure of happiness to erase slightly the constant pain and sorrow my heart and body were made to endure. I was finally free! Finally offered the chance to say goodbye to my cursed little town and every little fraction of memory that was found within, for good. Nothing was ever going to bring me back, I would never allow it. Two days had gone by since Matthew and I discussed letting him accompany me to California. And true to his word, Matthew made every necessary arrangement for the journey without asking a dime off me. I wasn't comfortable letting him take c

