Forsaken
The only sound between us was our thumping hearts, Iris’s pumping itself to the point of exhaustion as she pulled her thoughts together.
“I’ve always had the friends they wanted me to have, done the things they told me to, and wore what they wanted. It didn’t take me long to realize that going with what they wanted was easier than going against, so I did,” she said with a small shrug of her shoulders. “B-But I’ve never had anything real in my life, nothing that I knew wasn’t fabricated or faked. I thought I did… with a person I thought to be my best friend, but I was wrong about that. I was very wrong about that.”