Chapter 20
“A Promise”
POV Ayesha
Even though I’m surrounded by my family every day, and I have Stella. I feel strangely alone. Like I’m standing on a mountain in the vast wilderness looking out at the world and no one sees me or my pain. I’m standing in a storm with thunder and hail and dark black clouds, and I can’t escape it.
Food is flavourless; coffee no longer affects me. I can only sit in my misery. I don’t know how long I will feel this way. Everyone is afraid to say anything to me. I’m angry and snap at even the kindest word. No one can pull me out of the hole I have dug. I crawl under my bed one night and fall asleep in the darkness after crying myself to sleep. When I wake up and feel something big and furry snuggle into me. The bed is lifted up by his size. I get lost in it
