26
Rue
Dryas slammed the front door, walking out of my life forever. Something in my chest broke just then, some little piece of my heart that I’ve been holding on to with intense desperation.
I haven’t heard a single sound from him since then, not that I expected to, really. Lying on the bed in the farthest back bedroom, I cry out all my tears. I think all the manic things that I have repressed for the past two months.
Dryas is gone, and it’s my fault.
Just like it was my fault that Father Derrik was seduced by me.
I drove Dryas away. It was inevitable.
No one would want to stay with me, not when they know everything about me.
Caught in a cycle of negativity, I can’t seem to stop the thoughts. They swirl around in my head, an endless snake eating its own tail. I sob into the pillo
