CHAPTER 33 - HELPLESS

Sometimes, a painful truth is like a fire that slowly consumes you until there's nothing left. It's scary, frightening, and can be soul-crushing.

It is like fate… it’s hard to fight against it just like how you go against a rushing river. You can’t just swim into it and stop its flow whatever you do, and at the end, you’ll just end up drowning from all your wasted efforts. It’s unfortunate, specially when the flow that you’re heading to is the thing that you’ve been escaping from for years.

But, if there’s a silver lining amidst this nightmare, behind all the unfortunate events that come along with this truth, is the reality that someone will stay for you if they wanted to. If they wanted to be with you, they would choose to stay by your side no matter what may come.

I was tightly holding my phone while intently staring at the article that I’m reading. It was like a deja vu for me, if I may say. I’ve been in this situation before, last 5 years ago. I took a deep breath and closed my