Goodbye Forever, Mom
"Sophie, if there's a next life, don't be so stubborn again. It's only ever you who ends up hurting for it."
Watching him play the grieving, sympathetic cousin even now, spouting the same hypocritical, backhanded criticism as always, one of my friends finally lost her patience. She stormed up, grabbed him by the collar, and snapped, "Kyle, what's your problem? Still not done playing saint? Sophie's dead, and you're still putting on this whole performance? Do you have any conscience left at all?"
Kyle hadn't expected anyone to actually confront him in public. His face went from red to white in an instant. "I didn't mean anything by it. I'm devastated Sophie's gone too. I'm sorry if what I sai