Dear Hailey,
I hope you're doing well. I miss you, I really do. And Kat, of course. You have no idea how hard it is to stay away. I'm so sorry. I never realised this would happen, I just wasn't thinking straight.
Please, don't be angry at me. It's the last thing I want. Please Hailey, I still love you.
Write back soon,
Bryan
I closed my eyes and tilted my head back against the sofa. He sends a letter every day, and I have only written back once. I was beginning to draft my reply, when Kat, my Yorkshire Terrier, brushed past my pale legs. Kat had been a present from him. We named her together, on the day of my 19th birthday, half trying to be witty, half trying to be funny. Four years before the incident.
I sighed, miserably. However hard I tried, everything I looked at just reminded me of Bryan somehow, it was useless. Suddenly, there were three abrupt knocks at the door. 'Hailey! Open the door!'
The voice belonged to Kelsey, my best friend, but second to Bryan of course. Bryan was my everything. Again, I tried to push the thought of him out of my mind. 'Coming!'
'Hailey,' she breathed as she barged past me, 'Why aren't you returning any of my calls?' She was out of breath, like she had run here, and sweat was collecting on her forehead. 'Sorry,' I replied, folding away Bryan's letter and tucking it away behind my back, 'I was...' Kelsey rolled her eyes. 'Yes, we know, you were reading your letter from Bryan.' I sat down hastily, and she followed suit, on the armchair opposite.
'Well,' she snapped sarcastically, 'Maybe I needed to reach you urgently? Maybe I needed my best friend to be there for me?'
'Kelsey... I'm so sorry.' I said, biting my lip, 'Just talk to me. What's going on?' Tears began to fill Kelsey's eyes. 'My father... he's dead.'
I opened my mouth to say something, then closed it again. Kelsey had turned away, and she was shaking her head through her tears. 'I am so sorry.' I stuttered, trying to process the information she had given me.
'You know,' she whispered shakily, 'I thought he would get through it. We all did.' I nodded my head in agreement. Kelsey's father dad been diagnosed with cancer two years ago, and he had been doing so well. I was confident he was going to make it.
But, like everything else, nothing is ever as it seems.
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Roman d'amourHailey gave everything up for him. She thought he did the same, but little did she know the secrets he kept from her. But it was all because he loved her. Well, that's what they all say.
