“X, if Mandy was here, right now, what would you say to her?”
And I answered, with complete, utter certainty, the words spilling out of my mouth, crawling from behind my gums, “I wouldn’t say a single thing, because Mandy was all about the unspoken truths, the lies hidden inside empty bottles and nights of reluctance. I’d just keep quiet, because sometimes—when your world is about to crash, and there’s nowhere to go but home—silence can fix everything.”
