61|awful mistake

Brenda G

Everything happens for a reason. That's what everyone says. Time is a healer of all wounds, that's yet another quote that has grown to be people's favourite. As much as I had tried using both of those quotes to soothe my aching heart, none of them helped.

My heart was crushing more and more and there was nothing that could hold it together. Not even Gena's words or the mouth-watering food that she'd laid before me. I hadn't eaten a morsel of food for twenty-six hours. My stomach couldn't stop rumbling as digestive acids corroded its walls. Ulcers would soon invade my stomach.

"Bree, please at least take a bite." Gena, who had been repeating the same phrase for the past ten minutes, urged. I had rejected all the meals for the past 24 hours but she hadn't stopped trying. She had even gone as far as ordering a variety of dishes and laid them on the coffee table for me to select my preferred dish.

"If you don't eat, I swear I will s