Jusi
tell me it was just a joke
She was a few days shy of 16.
Her once plump cheeks had sunken; her pale brown skin had turned ashen white and her honey-colored eyes that brought warmth from a gaze, were tightly shut. Her lips held a ghost of a smile and he thought, for a moment, that she was merely joking - that she would open her eyes and tell him that it was all an elaborate plan to scare him. But she laid there, under the curtains of jusi and piña that swathed the contours of her body, unmoving and ignorant of the void she left.
Her once plump cheeks had sunken; her pale brown skin had turned ashen white and her honey-colored eyes that brought warmth from a gaze, were tightly shut. Her lips held a ghost of a smile and he thought, for a moment, that she was merely joking - that she would open her eyes and tell him that it was all an elaborate plan to scare him. But she laid there, under the curtains of jusi and piña that swathed the contours of her body, unmoving and ignorant of the void she left.