SCARLET VENGEANCE
The solemn faces of mourners became distant echoes, leaving me alone with the weight of loss.
Aunt Fernanda and Leila, seemingly relentless in their bitterness, approached me one last time before departing. "Don't think you're off the hook for what happened, Celicia. You'll always be a burden," Aunt Fernanda spat, her words etching a deeper wound into my already battered heart.
Leila, mirroring the hostility, added with a mocking tone, "Maybe now you can finally learn to stand on your own. Good riddance." Their departing footsteps echoed in the emptiness, leaving behind a trail of harsh echoes that reverberated through my thoughts.
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