OOM
After this.
Rachel did not go back inside right away. Threatened and afraid, inside with four walls around her was not the place she wanted to be at that moment. And just because voices ring in her head with some regularity does not mean that she, for a second, thinks it's okay.
Or sane.
So she walks.
Away from where the cat disappeared.
In the opposite direction entirely, actually.
For a long time. Until the voices get soft enough to ignore. Until what she sees in front of her is what actually is in front of her. And nothing more.
Until his words are gone. All of them.
Your friend.
Every last one.
In the end, the only reason she goes inside is because her room isn't empty anymore and at the end of every day, someone is waiting for her.
Rachel did not go back inside right away. Threatened and afraid, inside with four walls around her was not the place she wanted to be at that moment. And just because voices ring in her head with some regularity does not mean that she, for a second, thinks it's okay.
Or sane.
So she walks.
Away from where the cat disappeared.
In the opposite direction entirely, actually.
For a long time. Until the voices get soft enough to ignore. Until what she sees in front of her is what actually is in front of her. And nothing more.
Until his words are gone. All of them.
Your friend.
Every last one.
In the end, the only reason she goes inside is because her room isn't empty anymore and at the end of every day, someone is waiting for her.