I don't know what to do anymore. I'm nervous, my heart is anxious.
I don't know how to fix everything. I thought I had escaped my past. I thought that once you tried to heal those painful memories, they wouldn't come back to haunt you ever again. But, I was wrong about that.
Now, even though I tried to forget Joseph in my life, no matter how many times I pushed him out of my mind, those memories with him, the painful ones, what I went through with him—I didn't know there was a chance they could come back.
It feels so difficult, as if I have no right to be happy, no right to escape from him. To the point that it feels like my past is strangling me, tying me down to a quiet, dark place. Even if I scream repeatedly, begging to be set free, it doesn't work.
“Leah…” I hear his voice cal
