Sixty-five: Just like you

Temperance

I thought everyone is supposed to have character growth. Not just in books but in real life. Yet it's been a year and a half and I'm still stuck on what happened during my adolescence.

I stare in the mirror I stand in front of. Things are definitely different from back then. My looks included.

Back then my hair was long and thin. Now it's thick and short, down to my shoulders. My eyes used to be dull and lifeless but now they are bright. My thin and honey body is now healthy and I'm never starving.

To think I almost killed myself.

If I would have I wouldn't be where I am now. Both of my parents are dead, anyone who's wronged me is gone, I'm surrounded by a loving husband and amazing friends.

Several times my mind has gone back to the one person that escaped my grasp. The one person that slipped through my fingers.

Emaline.

My best friend.

I see her every time I closed my eyes. Her face is morphed now, it's blurry. Her face has faded from my mind. I haven't forgotten her, ju