My Sweet Dollie, You Have to Love Me

Dollie

When we first met, we were just two kids with nothing in common. Different interests and struggles put a wedge between us before we could ever be friends.

Then a terrible childhood trauma bonded us, bringing us closer forever. We became each others everything. A light in the dark that the other needed to make it through.

All that changed the night my beloved parents died.

He couldnt be my comforter anymore.

He couldnt be around me at all.

Because my words sentenced him to years behind bars.

Ambrose

I should hate her for putting me in prison. For moving on with her life while I wasted ten lonely years writing letters she never replied tobut hate isnt what I feel as I watch from the shadows of the family home after she returns for the first time since that night.

My sweet Dollie has no idea were living in the same house, because she still cant step foot upstairs.

But I like that Im close enough to comfort her again. Because she needs it more than ever, and she cant get it from her boyfriend.

We grow a little closer each time we talk anonymously. Each time she reaches out and tells a stranger of something awful that hes done, Im there to soothe her pain.

She wonders how I know her so well. How Im able to take away all the hurt shes feeling.

But she has no idea that Ive been doing it her whole life.