Chapter 46

MIA

‘STAY BACK! STAY BACK, OKAY?’

“Mae mae please”

She moved an inch towards me, I took one step back my body hitting the cold railing behind me. she stretched out her hands towards and I could only nod my head sideways in disbelief because this…the woman in front of me couldn’t be my sister.

She looked like her, yes.

Had the same voice.

Might have even aged a decade but she was not—

“Don’t call me that”, I whispered, my lips quivering and the tears that I had held up in my eyes threatening to spill in fat chunks.

“It’s me and I know it’s hard to get what’s happening but you have to listen to me, okay?”

Listening to a stranger who had my sister’s face was maddening. Like speaking to a ghost and trying to convince yourself you were not going insane.

The proper thing to do should have been to scream or to make a run for it and forget I had seen anything in the first place.

But there was just that look in her eyes that made me still, that made me want to believe I wasn’t going mad and th