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Forever changed

Author: Marissanem
last update Last Updated: 2024-02-22 13:00:26

POV

Millie

I’m completely frozen, I can’t even turn around to look at him, everything has become deafening, if an explosion just went off right in front of me, I don’t think my body would even respond.

June 22nd was the day my life forever changed.

I somehow turn my body around back to the ocean after a minute, I don’t even pay attention that X is still here, a million thoughts are flooding my mind.

“You still call her?” he asks and I look down at him with his back to me as he's looking out into the distance.

“I never shut her phone off,” I say quietly enough that I don’t even know if he heard me.

“Who told you?” I ask him at the same volume as my last statement.

He pats the sand beside him indicating for me to sit back down and I slowly walk back over and do so.

I’m still in a stunned state when I sit down and he puts his hand over mine in a comforting way.

“How’d she die?” he asks and those words slice through me like a knife.

“Me” I respond in the most monotone, staring into space
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