Chapter 2 - Ivy
IVY
I thought I knew darkness.
I believed I had lived in it after Drew’s death and become old friends with that place in my head where nothing and no one could penetrate the gloom.
I understood it, had even embraced it at times.
It became familiar.
Just the new way life was going to be.
Yet what sucks me in now is something new.
An inky blackness so thick, so heavy it steals my vision, my breath, my soul.
Pure, impenetrable onyx.
I should be fighting it.
At least attempting to swim and struggle against the riptide of anguish that wants to consume me and drag me down to those inescapable depths.
But I don’t have it in me anymore.
I’ve fought too hard for too long to stay afloat.
Those obsidian waves that finally tugged Drew away from me can take me now, too.
As long as they bring me to him.
Because there is no light left.
No hope.
Nothing to keep me from embracing that which I’ve battled for months.
It was all a lie.
An obsession that led to this agony.