My Fake Sister Took Everything; Now It's My Turn
ching on the frost-covered floor,
le mine were ragged and desperate, hers were calm, and measured. She
ts, "Reduced to nothing,
the ground, my teeth ch
e glee in her eyes, the satisfaction of seeing me li
commanded, her vo
she looked like me-or rather, how much I should have looked like her. She was everything I
oulder, pulling out a piece of stale bread. She tossed it to the ground in
t. "You wouldn't want your precious baby to starve
ng to do with the cold. I looked down at the bread, hard and stale,
nside me-the only thing keeping me tethered to this world, the only thing that gave m
ce to spit at her, while she just smi
ring just how much she knows, If even she was the on
t felt like a brick in my hand. I force myself to tear
dry and bitter, like ashes on my tongue. I had to fight the
not allow that child to see the light of th
s cut me. She wanted to see me break, to see the last shred of my dignity crumble be
bread. I press a hand to it, trying to communicate my love, and my determi
t finished. She crouched down in front of me, her fa
n that seeped into my soul. "It's no wonder they replaced
rs fighting to survive, to hold onto the small pieces of myself that hadn't been destroyed, but now, in
ew I was worthy of something but
me to look into her eyes. "Look at you," she
in, but I didn't cry out. Instead, I closed my ey
is, before the cold, before the darkness, but even those memorie
my chin was gone. And the door open