'I heard screams.
They shattered my eardrums, I just didn't know that they would shatter my heart too.
I span around, trying to follow the sound.
I didn't know what lay ahead, into that corridor. But the screams already sounded like the wailing of...
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H o l l o w s I n T I M E
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"So Jameson cheated on you." Saph said, flipping through a magazine next to me.
My eyes widened. "No! I never said it was Jameson."
"One doesn't even need to guess." She muttered under her breath so that only I could hear.
"And you're forgetting the point I made earlier that technically he didn't cheat, because we were never in the relationship." I told them, watching them all act so normal as I was busy freaking out.
"True. And I guess it's kind of void since you took that 'holiday'." Avery said, glancing at Cassie as she stole her term for my disappearance. I bit at my cheek, my eyes meeting with Bria's. We both knew that what happened wasn't a holiday.
I closed my eyes, trying to draw the courage from within to say what I so badly wanted to admit in this moment. "Actually, guys, I think we should talk about my 'holiday'."
Bria gave me an encouraging smile as Cassie bounded over, yelling something about wanting to know about my hotel reservations.
With an inhale, and then an exhale, I told them everything.
I started with August the twenty-third, skimmed over May the twenty-ninth, and finished with September the third, when I was finally rescued.
The girls listened intently and never interrupted. It felt good. Alexi and Jameson already had rough ideas about what had happened, and I wasn't giving the girls any exclusive details, but it felt good that they would finally know and understand what happened.
When I finished, tears were cried and hugs were exchanged. Last year, I realised that home was not a place, and that it was people. And I felt at home here.
