Chapter 96

AVERY

~One Month Later…

I often heard people say before.

Times fixes everything.

With time, you forget your pain.

With time, you forgive the people who hurt you.

With time, you feel as good as new.

That’s a lie.

It’s not the time that fixes everything. It’s the people you meet and the way your life changes and something more—something that I still don’t get until now.

I am lucky that I got both. I got to meet people and my life changed.

But that something…a small element is still missing from my life.

As a new day comes, and the darkness clouds the South, I find myself in search of that final piece of the puzzle but fail every time.

“ Avery! Nellie is calling you over! ” The small child shouts from the distance.

I snap out of my thoughts and glance at the girl from over my shoulder. Her round face reminds me of Celia. The sweet girl who smiled at me and told me she liked me, missed me, wanted to stay with me.

Now, I can’t see her anymore.

“ I am coming, Belle! ” I shout back with