Return of the wolf ....only i'm not alone ON HOLD

Return of the wolf....only i'm not alonepart8

Recap of Marli's pov :

I closed my eyes for a second and sighed when Marina spoke quietly, her voice strained

" Please Marli....

Don't you think we've all avoided this conversation far too long?"

Maybe she was right.

Maybe this wouldn't be as excruciatingly painful as I thought it would be.

Maybe it would be worse.

I shook myself lightly out of their grasp and slowly, with my face as passive as I could manage, turned to face two of the most familiar yet dreaded faces to me in the world.

..................

And there they were.

Jenny was standing to my right and had the same bright blue, cat like eyes and soft smile, only now it was tinged with sadness. On my left Marina's short red hair still fell into slight curls around her face and her almost alabaster white skin contrasted with her deep green eyes. Both of their faces were so familiar to me, indented in my mind, inescapable, filling nearly all the best memories of my seventeen years.

Every birthday.

Every Christmas.

We had spent nearly all our summers together, laughing, joking, swimming in the sea, sunbathing till we burnt and hanging out in our back gardens. We made snowmen together in the winter, sledged dangerously down too-steep hills and threw snowballs at each other until we were dripping wet and had to go in for hot coco.

We were the first people we told our secrets to, our problems, our crushes.

We were inseparable. We thought we were unbreakable.

And now I was standing in front of the two people I had once believed, being separated from would shatter my heart into thirds.

In some ways I still did.

Marina was the first to speak; her eyes where shining under the hallways harsh fluorescent lighting and I knew she was close to tears. She spoke quietly, her voice strained

" Please Marli....

Don't you think we've all avoided this conversation far too long?"

I bit on my lip.

" M, we know you have no reason to listen to us. And we- we understand you probably h-h hate us for how we treated you" Marina broke off, trying to keep her voice even. Every part of her face screamed with pain.

Oh no. She looked so hurt...

She actually believed I hated them both... did I?

No.

They'd hurt me. But no I didn't hate them.

I don't think I would ever be capable of hating them....

Jenny put her hand on Marinas shoulder, her eyes burning into mine and continued

" What Marinas saying is M, were sorry. Were sorry. We were wrong and ever since you left - nothing's been the same. You are still our best friend, Our M. Always will be.

We hated having to ignore you, to see your face drop as we walked past and all the hurt we were putting you through and... when we told you we weren't friends anymore - you have to know, you've got to know it was the most difficult and un true thing we have ever had to say. We have missed you every day since you left and then when you were gone couldn't tell to you and explain. You just left thinking that we didn't care and that we rejected you. That's the worst part..."