Convenient Coincident

Chapter 29

I swiveled around in my swirly chair looking up at the ceiling. It was a bland beige color, my walls were all an outdated pink from when I was younger and I was still into things like ponies and stuff.

I should paint my room. I thought to myself. I shook the thought away, I could do that some other day.

I was bored out of my mind and I wasn't in my usual movie mood. I tried playing music but everything that was playing just didn't fit my mood. Boredom.

It had been 5 days since I'd seen Nate since we were currently in winter break, and Nate was in North Carolina visiting his grandparents. He had been texting me everyday and I learned that I had a lot in common with him.

Ebony and Brit were both on Christmas vacation. Brit was in Florida and Ebony was in Nevada. Ebony was having a great time, she even told me about a guy who asked her for her number, but I haven't heard from Brit the whole break.

I swirled my chair back so that I was facing my computer and turned the console on. The first thing that popped up was Facebook. I cringed as I saw all of the noted people were leaving me.

'I'm sorry for your loss'

'May she rest in peice'

'My heart goes out to you sweetie'

'Hang in there kiddo'

I deleted every one of them and groaned back into my seat. They aren't helping bringing all of this stuff up again, I was completely fine as long as I didn't think about it.

I checked my clock and it said 1:32 I felt my stomach rumble as I remembered skipping breakfast. I got up out of my chair and trudged out of my room and into the hallway.

I was about to descend down the stairs when I heard the sound of silent sobbing coming from down the hall. I walked outside of the door where the sobbing was coming from and lightly knocked on the door.

"Persie?" The sobbing stopped and I heard someone sniffling. I lightly pushed open the door and saw Persie cacooned in the corner of her bed, tears were streaked down her face making her cheeks red and puffy.

Her hair was messy and sticking out in various places of her bun, and when she saw me she completely broke down. Her breathing was shallow and her shoulders were shaking as she cried into her duvet.

I averted my eyes from my crying sister, and slowly made my way towards her looking over her shoulder instead of directly at her. When I see people cry it always makes me want to cry too, and I just didn't want to cry.

I sat next to her on her bed patting her back awkwardly. I was never good with comforting people, so it was always a struggle for me when things like this happen.

"I'm sorry Thena, I just miss her you know?" Persie said as her sobs died down until she was just sniffling and silent tears were streaking down her face.

"I know what you mean." I said empathetically, since I did understand what she was going through, I should be the one sobbing harder than her right now. She silently cried on my shoulder for a while murmuring a few incoherent words every now and then, sometimes even saying my name.

I felt a twinge of pain in my heart as the memories flashed behind my eyelids. I squeezed my eyes shut thinking of better things. Tina,  Penguins, Teddy bears, Persie, Ebony, Brit. Nate.

I was so caught up in thinking that I didn't notice Persie had stopped crying and was wiping her eyes. I opened my eyes and Persie was staring at me with bloodshot eyes. She must have seen some kind of emotion flash in my eyes because now she was staring at me with Sympathy, and Pity.