Thanks for Playing, I'm Quitting This Game
I continued, "That day, I stood outside the funeral home and waited for you until it got dark. Gabriel came once, but after answering a call from Tiffany, he left. He said that the dead were already dead, and the living mattered more."
Something crashed to the floor on the other end of the line.
I smiled faintly. "You see? I remembered everything all along. I just wanted a family so badly that I pretended to forget."
Hunter's voice was frighteningly hoarse. "Natalie… I'm sorry."
I looked at my mother's photograph on the headstone. "Stop apologizing. Your apologies came too late."
I ended the call, took out the SIM card, and snapped it in half. Then, I folded the veil neatly and placed it in