Echoes of Betrayal follows Koria, a young woman struggling with the pain of betrayal and loss. As hidden truths come to light, she's forced to face the reality of the people she once trusted. Koria must decide how far she's willing to go to find jus...
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Koria : core-ree-uh ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Today was a sad day and the skies and rain reflected that. Alexis stood on the podium, her umbrella in one hand and the mic in the other. She spoke about Manny and his life as we all listened, laughing and agreeing at times.
It was time for us to bury my heart. DJ decided to come along with me, he said I needed someone today and wanted to be that someone. I appreciated it honestly.
"Wipe your face beautiful" he dabbed it gently to not mess up my makeup. I thanked him and sighed standing over the closed casket that was half way in the dirt.
I blinked my tears away and smiled before placing my 3 bouquets of flowers on top. Alexis handed me the shovel and told me to do the first pour but I couldn't. "I-"
"Y'all were thick as thieves, it's only right" she rubbed my back.
"No, auntie I can't throw dirt on him. I'm sorry" I sniffed and hurried away as the tears fell down my face. DJ left me alone as I walked through the cemetery not being able to control myself.
A bus pulled up and I watched as police and guards escorted Carlos out. My face lit up and I ran over to him like a kid in a candy store. "Hey" I was stopped almost immediately and held by an officer.
"Hey niece" Carlos smiled big at me, chains on his wrists and ankles. "Don't be a square, stop all that crying" he laughed.
"Shut up" I chuckled from the distance they held us at. "I wanna hug you so bad" my lips quivered and shoulders dropped in defeat. He was so identical to my dad and I really needed to hug the both of them right now.
What's a girl supposed to do without her father? Seeing my uncle just made me realize how good I had it, and I miss it so much. I miss the both of them being in my life so damn much!
The officer shrugged and motioned me over and I ran hugging him tightly. He couldn't really hug me back because of the way the chains were so he wrapped his head around me in a way. "I miss you so much" I sobbed into him.
"I know Angel" he said only making me cry more. That was the nickname he and my dad would call me. "Baby" Alexis joined in the hug. I removed myself and gave them some time.
"Wrap it up" the officer demanded and separated us once again. The three of us knew what conversation needed to be had but because of the circumstances we just kind of had to ignore the elephant.
The fact that nobody cared about this rain was something else. Once it began to thunder though we knew what time it was.
We finished the service, I kept glancing back at Carlos who they had remain a few feet away from everyone else. He was crying and kept looking to the ground, I hate this for him honestly.
