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After leaving my job, I stayed here for a few
months.
The day I left the hospital, it was raining.
I bought Ashley’s favorite lilies and put them
by her grave, letting the rain soak me.
“Brooke…”
A voice said.
It was my parents and Tiffany.
After the embassy, they had been looking for
me, but I had avoided them.
Today, they caught me when I came to see
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Ashley.
My parents looked old, ten years had come
with a blink of the eye.
Tiffany followed them, looking down, not sure
what she was thinking.
“Brooke, we know the way we treated you
and Ashley was terrible, we know the reason
that we did things like that.
“We are so sorry.”
Mom reached out to touch me, but I stepped
back.
Just like she had that day.
Dad turned, yelling at Tiffany,
“We loved you, but you killed Ashley!”
“You’re evil!”
Tiffany cried, hugging Mom’s leg.
“Dad, Mom, do you remember when I was
sick?
Did you forget to say, I will always be your
daughter.?”
“But I was so afraid. I just wanted to be loved.
“I will never do that again, please forgive
me…”
“Shut up!” Dad pulled her away.
“Don’t talk about those days? You are
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disgusting.”
Mom cried, “How could you do this…”
Tiffany knelt down, hitting her head on the
floor.
“Mom, I am so sorry… please give me a
chance.”
Dad pushed her away.
“Don’t call us Mom and Dad, you destroyed
our family, you are not our daughter
anymore!”
They told the story.
It was Tiffany, she had read the messages
from me and Ashley, who had lied to our
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parents.
It was Tiffany, who started the issues in our
family.
“We were so stupid. It was not what it was,”
“Her heart was good. She had been faking it
all along…”
Mom cried.
“Ashley, we are so sorry.”
“We want to pay you.”
I just looked back, without anything else.
Tiffany did not want to, so why did she do
this?
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They were repenting, but everything was for
nothing.
Ashley will never be the same.
I turned around, seeing Ashley.
“Ashley, they came.
“But it’s too late…”
Tiffany would not.
Tiffany said she could not live there so she
had killed herself and our parents.
I inherited my parents, going to college and
becoming an engineer.
After that, I came to Ashley to see her and tell
her how I was.
There was a breeze and cool air.
Ashley, stay well.
