Chapter 127: A Sea of Sounds

AUNT HYACINTH

I lock myself inside my room because I don’t want anyone to come in unannounced while I wipe the blood from my nose.

The bleeding started a month ago, quite later than I expected it actually. I’ve dreaded the day that I start to bleed from my nose all my life. It was something I was scared of even more than death itself but now that I wipe the blood from my nose more constantly, death is what scares me.

Every day, it feels like I draw closer to my grave faster than I should. Every body dies but not like this! I don’t want to for like this.

I didn’t choose this life for myself. My mother didn’t either but I don’t have anybody else to blame but her, she’s the one that left me with nothing but a deadly ailment.

She left me with no friends, no family, no food, no money and as if that was not enough to kill me in just a matter of days, she also had to leave me with the knowledge that I have a time bomb ticking inside of me waiting for the right time to blow up.

I was a ch