o's

s?" I asked, my

Your family has been involved in an accident.

ed to spin. "What do you mean?" I finally managed to say, my voice cracking. "Wh

hat felt like an eternity. "Please, Miss

from the venue, leaving a trail of stunned onlookers in my wake. My heart p

aotic whirl of fear and disbelief. This couldn't be happenin

er, Aunt Lydia, standing in the waiting room with her daugh

e they d

ed with anger. The doctor, a tall man with a k

eopatra Benson?"

oice trembling. "Where a

o sorry to inform you, Miss Benson, but your parents an

s if trying to hold my breaking heart together. "No... no, that can't be true," I

ens continued softly, his voice filled wi

of machinery; all of it faded into nothingness. I was floating in a void, unable to comprehend the magnitude of what I had just

!" she screamed, her face twisted in grief and fury. "If it wasn't for

from. As long as I can remember, she already disowned her younger brother

s shaking with rage. "You killed

evastation in her eyes, the way her grief twisted her features into something unrecognizable. In her mind, blaming me was the only

rs. "Mom, stop it, please! Don't do this here!" But Aunt Lydia w

the one in that car! No

as the tears streamed down my face. At that moment, the vibrant, joyous girl who had walked

tell Aunt Lydia that she was

rent attending their child

rapped in a silent nightmare, where n

oice soothing as he spoke to me, but I barely heard him. All I could think of as I sat there, numb and broken, my mind dr

oments, so full of life and love now felt like a cruel illusion and vanished in an instant. All the wishes, the prayers, th

ked no one i

*

turned, the air heavy with the scent of rain and the weight of loss. The sky was a somber gray as if the heavens themselves mourne

sk of bitterness and unresolved anger. She looked down at the gr

ng but trouble from the start. She seduced my brother, and pulled him away from his own family, all be