Fragments Of Us

She didn't die that night.
But part of her never made it home.

She was only nine when her world ended.

The night her parents died in a car crash-
chasing after her after she ran away in tears-
everything shattered.

Not just for her, but for her six older brothers too.

But while they grieved,
they turned their pain into blame.
And they turned her into the reason their parents were gone.

They buried her in silence.
In cruel words.
In punishments they disguised as distance.
And none of them stopped to ask-
How does a little girl mourn when the only people she has left treat her like a curse?

Now, eight years later, she barely speaks.
She barely eats.
She barely lives.

Because when love is replaced with cold shoulders and harsher words,
you stop trying to be seen.
You start disappearing instead.

But someone's starting to notice.
Someone who was supposed to protect her.
Someone who's waking up far too late.

And while she fades into shadows,
he's the only one who's beginning to see how much damage silence can do-
and how much guilt can cut deeper than hate.

But is it too late to save someone
who no longer wants to be saved?

Because this story doesn't start with heartbreak.
It starts with a little girl who was forgotten by the people who should've never let her go.
And now-
they're about to learn that grief doesn't just destroy the dead.

It buries the living too.