Please say this is a lie…
His words through the phone echo in my mind, making everything else fade away. “Zaia!” Annette’s distant shout echoes in my mind as I fall to my knees, broken.
Sebastian left me.
Tears stream down my cheeks as I clutch my chest. The pain I feel is far worse than anything I have felt in my life. Far more excruciating than when he rejected me years ago.
It hurts so much… my heartbeat is ringing in my ear, along with the shrill whistling sound that makes my head want to explode.
I cannot breathe.
Sebastian…
“Why!” I scream as I stare ahead, unseeing.
Flashes of our moments together flood my mind but all I can focus on is him. The signs were there, the way he was behaving… how long had he been planning to do this?
I thought we were a team. I told him I needed him. Why?
Will I never just be enough to keep him happy? Sobs wrack my body and I feel like I’ve lost everything. The threads of my life had begun to come undone, yet I still held on… still hoped for something more.
Mom… Dad… Sebastian…
I failed. Just the way I
the goddess doing this
wrong one! Why?!” I scream. “If you really cared… if you’re really out there… why would you do this?” My voice
tried to do my best,
did you make us for one another if your only aim was to rip us apart and crush my strength? Despite everything, he gave me the
I had learned to forgive and not only did I fall for
don’t want to feel this
pull myself together, but I can’t. He’s destroyed me… Destroyed the trust I had in him. Sobbing, I clutch at my aching heart,
chest. “He left me… again,” I whisper, a fresh wave of tears running down my cheeks.
to be ok. We’re going
How?
I felt like
he was saying
Mom… she’s gone too.
Dad…
in pain. My claws are out and my eyes blaze
look at
and I think it’s Atticus, but it’s becoming dark. “Sebastian, I want to talk to him. He needs to know that there are other options.” I plead through
If you can hear
a wall and
Atticus’s voice fades away as my vision begins to spin and then, everything becomes
fallen and I’m sitting on my bed, exhausted yet unable to sleep, in pain yet unable to feel it. Betrayed, yet unable to comprehend
How do I recover?
kids how I feel, but today I was unable to hold my tears back as I hugged and kissed
only strength I need, but how do I tell them their dad
my bedroom, despite being alone, my thoughts don’t relent.
the storm within me, the only thing I know is, I failed. Failed everyone and
Sebastian is truly gone.
Mom is dead.
Dad is missing.
that
I’m a failure…
home… once again, he’s the one who was there
exist when it only gives
My heart hurts…
door, and I don’t move when it opens. There are three of them, and Valerie is holding a tray
kissing my forehead. I turn away,
and Atticus leaves the door open a crack, murmuring something about the children being asleep. He sits on the
an awful mother. I
his arms around me, but I don’t want
endless abyss of pain and doom. “Come on, where’s that beautiful
but it’ll show through soon. Here Zaia.” she
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