The Elliot sisters chat room
Manuela : Eden, what happened?
Faith : Open the door, honey, we’re outside your room.
Manuela : Don’t call her honey.
Faith : Aw, don’t be jealous, I’ll call you honey too.
Manuela : I swear, Fee, if you don’t stop—
Eden : I did the same thing to him.
Faith : What thing, En?
Eden : I did the same thing to Isaiah that I had done 4 years ago. I ran away .
Eden : Actually, I sent him away this time.
Faith : It’s ok, En, you can call him and tell him to come back.
Manuela : Or just whistle and he’ll come running.
Faith : Manu! Be nice. Although it’s true, he will.
Eden : I just said ‘goodbye’ to him. I don’t want him to come back. I broke it off. Not that there was anything to break. I guess I mean I didn’t start anything with him again. I couldn’t.
Manuela : Are you sure?
Eden : It could never work. First of all, whenever I get stressed, I always run away. It’s my flight response. And it’s not his fault. Why should he have to deal with it?
Faith : Because he’s crazy about you?
Eden : Oh, he’ll get over it. He got over it before.
Manuela : Have you heard any of his songs, En? He never got over it.
Faith : I can hear you crying, En. It’s breaking me.
Eden : I can’t open the door just yet.
Faith : It’s ok. Want to keep texting instead? Want to tell us why you are crying?
Eden: Because I just said ‘goodbye’ to Isaiah. It feels like I just ended my childhood somehow. The childhood I never had. I thought it was when Solomon died, but it’s not. It’s this. This ‘goodbye’ is the end of me hoping I can ever have any of these stolen childhood years back.
Eden : That is so stupid.
Faith : It’s not.
Manuela : It’s the furthest thing from stupid .
Eden : I’m not sure what people mean when they say that. What is the ‘furthest thing from stupid’?
Manuela : Well, in this case… It’s the truth.