to: yulissawong@gmail.com
from: alexis.inoke@gmail.comsubject: i betrayed you
Alexis and Yulissa. Alexis and Yulissa. Alexis and Yulissa.
Ever since we learned how to, we scrawled our names over and over again everywhere: on our treehouse, on the sidewalk, on the whiteboard, and even on the wall of your house. We thought it would never fade.
Your parents treated me like their second child, like your younger sister. Now, I stay away from them because I'm a constant reminder of their real daughter—the girl currently comatose in the hospital.
I never told them the truth. Selfish, I know, but I'm too ashamed of what I did. They would never look at me the same, and I'm a coward. I'm afraid, alright? All I can do is to live with the consequences.
When you wake up, will you forgive me? Probably not.
If you wake up.
YOU ARE READING
Oceans Apart
Short Story❝ perhaps the ocean had been calling her name all these lonely years -- the electric power, the drowning fear -- nothing more beautiful kissed the shoreline than her shades of blue.❞ in which letters are sent between two graduates, but one will ne...