Chapter 16
Death came for me but pain never did. Is that how it goes? You are only allowed to feel cold and see only flashbacks of your stupidity. You're only allowed to see your mistakes. To see every wrong thing you've ever done.
All the epic fails, that you so desperately just wanted to forget. You were just there floating in the abyss watching yourself facing failures upon failures. Would I be in the wrong for hoping for things to have ended differently. Would it be sin to hope for him to be human and stay with me? I knew that I could be so greedy. When it's him, I'd die a thousand deaths.
Then I brought myself to a memory when I was still trying to help people to survive. Perhaps I wasn't so greedy after all.
I was running towards the end of the tunnel when three consecutive explosions echoed inside the tunnels. I had to brace myself with the tremors it caused. It was nearly day break and I know by then the kids were already outside of the tunnels.
