Masked (Fiction)

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Masked (Part One)

“It’s strange when you think about it, the way everything changed, the way we went from hiding behind a figurative mask, pasting on fake smiles, to literally being masked.”

I nodded, understanding exactly what Kayla was saying, and I knew exactly what she was saying, I remembered the fake smiles, the unspoken words, especially in the days after the accident that changed Kayla’s life, and in turn change mine, she was my younger half sister, but more than that she was and still is my best friend.

“I guess we’re all adjusting to this new normal.” I said with a sigh.

“The isolation isn’t so new to me.” She said, in the days after the accident, most of my friends stopped coming to see me, stopped calling, in the hospital and even when I got home. “But you’ve always been there for me, even when I tried to push you away.”

“I promised I wouldn’t let you go through this alone.” I said. “You weren’t going to be alone, not when you needed me.”

“You were the only one that I didn’t have to put on the facade of being okay, when I felt as if the world was closing in around me.”

I had seen the fear in her eyes, as the reality of what happened took hold, and she realized this wasn’t something she would walk…