Emberly “Emberly Darling, wake up, you have been sleeping all morning” Mother called my name as she pulled the curtains in my room to make way for the afternoon sun. I could feel it sip through and disrupt my sleep, which I had barely gotten enough of. I had cried myself to sleep last night, I kept playing the conversation I had with Evan in my head, I thought of several scenarios where we could make it work and we could be together but they all ended up in everyone around us being hurt. I couldn’t watch people I love be in misery because of me, I couldn’t snatch away other people’s happiness just so that I could be satisfied. I wasn’t raised that way, I would be broken if someone did that to me. So I cried myself over and over again until I dozed off. Mother dragged the duvet that w

