Status: work in progress
The Child Is Gone
Two
Everything hurt and my god I didn't want to have to think about it all, let alone feel. Home felt like a foreign place once I stepped inside, like I was a stranger here.
It held no warmth.
I wasn't really awake. I couldn't be. Everything felt surreal. What had went wrong?
I flipped on a light, it made me blink several times, and dragged myself into the bathroom. My hands shook and it took me a moment to look up. The face reflecting back at me in the mirror wasn't the same one I had just twenty-four hours before.
It held no warmth.
I wasn't really awake. I couldn't be. Everything felt surreal. What had went wrong?
I flipped on a light, it made me blink several times, and dragged myself into the bathroom. My hands shook and it took me a moment to look up. The face reflecting back at me in the mirror wasn't the same one I had just twenty-four hours before.