It Had To Be You | ✔

chapter 5

No one could deny the fact that the guy in front of me was cold as a snow blizzard in December. Yet here he is standing in front of me with a tiny little bit of shock evident in his expression. After his eyes left mine, he scanned my body up and down with a frown in his face and his lips escaped a growl as if he only noticed my almost exposed breast. Heat immediately rose towards my cheek making me look a rotten tomato but worse. I wrapped my arms around my breast to atleast cover it a littlenand keep my dignity intact.

Suddenly, pain rushed through my body and every bruise I got intensified like 100 times. I felt dizzy and the bullet wound hurted like hell so I started clutching it. Maybe I didn't feel anything before because adrenaline took over me but it surely didn't last long. Black spots soon evaded my field of vision and less than a second, I felt like I was falling.

Suddenly I felt someone wrapping it's arms around my body covering me with what felt like a jacket. When I opened my eyes I wasn't in the familiar silhouette of trees, I was in an endless journey of a white room. I stood up, not feeling any pain from before and the dress I once wore soon transformed into a black gown making me stand out in this room. I started shouting, thinking someone was out their ready to help me, but with no avail, I was alone.

I started running as I soon saw that the white wall behind me was now tainted with pure black, spreading faster and faster as it reached me. I started panicking as I saw my fingers tainted in black spreading through out my body then a sudden wind like force made me stumbled backwards. I looked at my surroundings, the white room was nowhere in sight as it was replaced with a memory I held very dear. It was the day i last saw my mom. A mystery they never solved. A story they never told.

I walked closer to the happy little girl in the swing being pushed my her mother. She looked just like any normal girl, how did she end up like me?

"mommy higher!" the little girl said laughing. This was the first time I realized, mom held no emotion in her eyes. She laughed along with her daughter yet it felt so fake. She pushed with joy but she did it as if she was forced.

Suddenly the mother stopped pushing and walked towards her daughter. It was just like how I remembered it. I wanted to asked her and beg her to stay but this was just a memory I can never change.

"Vi, mommy needs to go to somewhere important ok" she said kissing her daughters forehead. "You need to stay here until someone comes and gets you" she quickly added.

"but mommy, I'm scared" she little girl admitted

"I know honey, but You have to be brave, brave for us" she told her daughter one final time until leaving her all alone in this abandoned park.

When I was a little older to understand, I realized that where mom had left me had been abandoned for more than a decade surrounded by woods, I then knew why she never answered me as to why we had to go and travel 3 hours just for a park.

I didn't want to remember, the day my life went to shit day by day. I clenched my fists angered by the thought and image of everything I went through until I saw the girl in front of me smiling. A reflection of who I used to be was in front of me. She stood there holding the opposite of my expression. She was happy and smiling, living the best parts of her life not knowing what future has in store for her. I eased my hands as I saw her in front of me not wanting to see how vulnerable I am.

She suddenly became serious as she had both my arms and shouted multiple time "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" I stood there shocked by the sudden change and whispers soon followed her words