Adopted by Zalfie Sequel

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"Take a seat." I breathed.

Zoe let me take a couple of minutes with them in the living room with the doors shut. Everyone else was in the kitchen, or somewhere else around the house. Zoe had also told Taylyn what was going on so she wasn't left alone in my bedroom without a clue of where I'd run off to.

Amelia sat down first, and then Daisy did too hesitantly.

Amelia was basically my sister back in Bristol. We lived together in the adoption centre, we went to school together and we partied together. I relied on her the most, I trusted her with a lot of things.

Looking back, she was the one to encourage my drinking, my stupid habit with boys and all of the stupid shit I should've never done.

At the time she was making it better for me. The drinking healed the pain, the boys made me feel wanted and the crimes made me feel in control.

But did I care when she backstabbed me just before I moved to Brighton by setting me up for rape just because I left her one night when we broke into a local shop to steal booze late one night and the police arrested her and not me?

No, I forgave her.

She was cruel. No matter what someone has done to you, you do not set them up for rape. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Amelia ruined my life; that night made me do something I will regret for the rest of my life, and it set off a chain of events that will always haunt me.

I fucking forgave her.

I carried on as her best friend and cried on her shoulder the day I was adopted.

"How are you?" She asked quietly.

"Better than before. What about you?" I replied nonchalantly.

"I recently moved out, I'm in my own place now. Finally eighteen." Amelia chuckled lightly. She shook her head, sighing. "Can you remember, we had a whole plan that when we were eighteen we'd move out."

"Now look at us. We've not spoken for four years and you're in your own apartment and I got mine today." I added.

She looked up at me with tears eyes. "That was our dream Tia. We were going to be sisters for life, sleepovers all the time. I'm so sorry Tia, for everything I've done."

I may be pissed at myself for forgiving her all those years ago, but right now it's different. I've matured in the way I think and handle myself. I think I'm better off accepting her apology and listening to what she has to say, rather than making an enemy and having the weight of her on my shoulders.

"I'm not going to say it's fine, because it's not. You encouraged the darkest time of my life and I was too dumb to see it. But I think we're both mature enough now to see our mistakes and never do it again."

Amelia looked at me pleadingly, "I swear, I swear I told that guy to make a move on you. Nothing more. I guess that was stupid too, but I never meant for it to end up like it did."

"I get that. As long as you realise that what you did set off a chain of events that will always stick up here." I pointed to my head, as a tear rolled down my cheek.

"I'm so sorry." Her voice cracked.

Daisy coughed awkwardly, probably as a sign to let me know that she was still there.

"I'm sorry that it happened like that too." I wiped away the tear and looked Amelia in the eyes. "I'm sorry that I left like that too, and left you there by yourself. I'm sorry that I got adopted and you didn't."