Chapter- 1

Shapes kept swirling and speaking in a language she couldn’t fathom. She tried approaching them, thinking that’ll do, and it did. Her mom was crying her eyes out and just close by were her little siblings, weeping, and wondering about their mother’s weird behavior. ‘Why’s mommy crying?’ the youngest one of them asked Linda with looks filled with anxiety. Linda opened her mouth, wanted to utter a word, but she knew she couldn’t, so she just shut it. Watching her steps, she hurried to her mom and soon enough, she understood the whole thing. The words repeated themselves in her mind, various images that haunted her memory, showed up in a perfectly clear picture; their new life. She couldn’t help but feel hatred she’d always knew would form after this towards her dad, her friend whom she trusted and loved. She’d been right all along, that one day, the feelings she always had for him would surely change, if it wasn’t back then, then it defiantly is now. Again, she felt the rush of emotions overwhelms her; insecure, lost, loneliness. Linda tried her best to shrug the past off, the past that’ll no longer comes back after this day. She had to force those ideas away, but a girl can dream, right? She thought sheepishly.

The annoying voice echoed through her room like it did every single morning, she woke up thanking God that it was a dream, and as always, feeling cranky as hell. Washing her face, she looked up at her own reflection, seeing her face for the first time in days, she wondered about the amount of kilos she might have lost, but thought it didn’t really make much of a difference, anymore.

The atmosphere was as suffocating as ever, but she decided she couldn’t care less, or that’s what she thought, anyway. Walking down the staircase, her mom looked up on her daughter looking rather pale and absent-minded.

I shouldn’t interfere. It’s none of my business after all, their marriage, I mean. I’m just a kid; would this make me achieve something? No, I guess I should just come off it already. It’ll bring nothing to me but trouble and depression. The same thoughts swirled in her mind as she began dressing up and getting ready for the big day, the day that’d decide which path her life would take.

All day long, Linda tried getting herself busy both physically and mentally, afraid of the thoughts that’ll make their way through her mind, again.

Author's Note

Comments are welcomed, and criticism is appreciated.
P.S, English is my second language and this is just an attempt in writing, so ignore the typos and the grammatical mistakes.