Chapter 10 8 months later (22 years old)
“Whyyyy? Why would he do that?” I wailed as sad melancholic background music played from my laptop. This was the worst romance movie ever. It shouldn’t even have been classed as romance. More like tragic sacrifice.
I paused the video player and let my head collapse onto the bed. Balling my hands into fists, I pummelled my pillow repeatedly like a punching bag. “Useless. Stupid. Idiot.” Yeah, I wasn’t talking about the movie anymore.
Someone knocked on my door and slid it open, interrupting my tirade. I suppressed a yelp at the dark head that poked in through the gap. “What was that noise? What are you doing in the dark?” Mum’s voice closed in on me as she approached. Shadows eclipsed half of her face, the other half lit eerily by the light from m
