Every Shattered Note (Heartbreak Mixtapes #3)

Chapter 40

Chapter Forty

Private Message | EchoZone Internal Chat

From: AlyEuphoriaEvents

To: MustLoveMusic

Date: February 28, 2001 6:02 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Are you there?

You don’t have to apologize for existing.

Or for being caught in something you didn’t create.

I hate that you’re alone in this.

I hate that I can’t be there to tell you that the world doesn’t get to define who you are.

I know what Eddie’s probably saying—control the narrative, manage the noise, disappear until it dies down.

But please, don’t disappear.

Not from me.

We can stay here.

Just this space. Just words. Just . . . something.

—A