Chapter Four
Mal
I can’t believe this panic inside me, this pain, this... This total loss of any sense of reality that I feel right now. Mia, a teen mum, and she still managed to do all sorts of great things with her life, while at the same time walking around with this pain inside her.
We would have helped. It wouldn’t have been out of duty or obligation, but because we love her, we would have done it out of love. And she knew that we would. She already knew that we would do that, which is why she stopped showing up, so we didn’t have an opportunity to help her, because she didn’t want to inconvenience us. She believed she did the right thing by not giving us more responsibilities, when we would have seen it as helping out a loved one, and she suffered in silence for all those years.
