How should discord be resolved?
There are moments like that in life. Moments when emotions flare like wildfire and lead to an argument, only for regret to follow with the realization that perhaps you went too far. All the more so when the other person is your own flesh and blood.
To be honest, facing her felt awkward.
Extremely so.
That feeling only intensified after my younger sister contacted me.
“She cried all day?”
—I am telling you, she did! I cannot know for sure, but she seemed terribly hurt. She made it painfully obvious that she was sulking, you know?
The girl beyond the communication orb spoke with a shudder of exasperation.
Then again, perhaps it was only natural when the two of them had been confined in a room together. Spending half a day with a woman who sobbed without pause was little different from torture.
That only made me feel more uncomfortable.
I had thought she was probably hurt. She was a child who had displayed a terrifying obsession with me from the beginning. There was no way she could remain unaffected…