Slipping away

Present

" How Can I forget what you did, Maria!" I scoffed at her but she just stood there without any remorse or guilt on her face. How can she be fine after hurting someone to the extent they decided to take their life and always felt self-conscious and suffered from mental health?

" I did everything to gain your attention, Scarlett! I was suffocating with being only your friend and I want more from you but you never looked at me like that." Tears gathered in her eyes and she looked so broken but now I can easily predict when she is going to change. She is behaving like someone who has a switch in her head that is turning off and on every second.

" Maria! I'm so sorry that you felt suffocated and I never noticed your feelings towards me but if I would have known then still wouldn't have reciprocated your feelings." I respect her feelings and I would have supported her and helped her but she didn't approach me but rather walked a negative path, a path of destruction.

" I know that bu