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I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything

𝕂𝔸ℝ𝕀ℕ𝔸
i may seem like the quintessential rich widow on the outside but everyone has layers. i'm a pathetic excuse for a mother.
you might ask, why?
it's because i've been keeping a secret from my twin daughters.
a huge secret.
want to know what it is?
my oldest daughter is not dead.
shocked yet? well, stay buckled because there's more.
the gas leak that apparently killed my husband was suicide. he didn't find interest in living in this world. and he was dying anyway. grade 3 cancer.
don't get me wrong, i love him. i will always love him.
that day when he looked me in the eye, handed me three letters and told me he loved me, i felt extremely hurt. i went out and took isla with me since i didn't want her to see this. but naomi...she refused to go.
and now it's my fault she has depression and ptsd. i should've forced her to come with us. i shouldn't have left her there. she thinks it's her fault she couldn't move and save them. what she doesn't understand is that she was a kid and paralysed in fear, ergo it isn't her fault. but i can't tell her all of this; not until her 20th birthday.
the three letters my husband left me were a note for me, one for the girls and his will. the latter two are going to be read on the twins 20th but i've read mine.
as i said Jenna isn't dead. she's hiding. she wasnt supposed to be in the fire but luckily she survived but was believed dead.
the truth is shes hiding from her extremely abusive ex. she needs to protect her baby at all costs.
everyone has secrets. and i need to keep mine to myself, no matter what

But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human, yeah

SONG OF THE CHAPTER; Human by Christina Perri

how's that for a BOMBshell??
are yall shocked? let me know your reaction and thoughts.
also Karina is Naomis mom for those of you who don't know.

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