PRETEND PRINCESS
Lily screamed.
My legs barely worked. I was stuck there, agape, like my brain couldn't wrap around it. Like I couldn't wrap my head around how fast everything disintegrated. One second he was just standing there, screaming at my mother, the next glass was shrouding everything, blood on his wrist, and the fragile reality I was pretending to hold together had broken completely.
"Yuki!"
I jumped and ran for the kit.
Lily was pressing a towel over his palm, speaking reassuringly to him but he wouldn't stop struggling, calling out for laurie, again and again. "Bring her back… I need her, bring laurie home!"