Painful Reconsideration

Christen practically slammed the door open as she finally arrived at the rooftop. As soon as she got to her destination, she closed the door behind her, and walked to the edge, blocked by a fence.

‘Soon… Soon, this will all be over,’ she thought.

As she walked, her mind began to think back to childhood. Specifically to the many times when she was bullied and harassed by her classmates, and the number of disappointed gazes she had piercing through her soul. Be it from the teachers who expected her to be as great as her siblings, or her siblings themselves, as well as their parents.

The memories shifted to her time with Forrest. When they first met and interacted with one another, how he captured her heart when he treated her different from everyone else, saw her as a person instead of a disappointment. Even if he never loved her back, he still chose her out of all other girls to be with, and practically gave her plenty of chances to try and close the gap between them. Or so she had