The Cost of Their Lies

The Cost of Their Lies

Gavin

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I woke up in my own bed, my familiar floral comforter, my slightly messy room. The sun was too bright, and a wave of nausea hit me. Then, Jessica's sickeningly sweet voice drifted from the kitchen, "Emily? You up?" My digital clock flashed 7:32 AM, April 12th – the day before my world ended. Just then, Jessica appeared, her smile too wide, wanting to borrow my Mustang for the Desert Bloom festival. The image of my beautiful car, mangled, a body on the asphalt, flashed before my eyes. Last time, I'd been blind to her manipulative ways, handing over the keys to my dream car. She drove it drunk, killed an innocent man, then, with my boyfriend Mike's help, used my own driver's license to frame me. My denials were useless against their calculated lies and her fake tears. I was abandoned, accused, then dragged from my apartment by the victim's son and his crew. They left me broken on the side of the highway, my body never recovered. The phantom pain echoed through my limbs, the memory of her betrayal and my agonizing death so vivid, so raw. How was I back? Why was I here, staring at these two people who orchestrated my destruction, their faces masks of innocence? A choking rage, hot and living, simmered within me. But this time, my eyes were wide open, and my voice was steady as I said the single, defiant word that would change everything: "No." This time, they wouldn't get away with it.

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I woke up in my own bed, my familiar floral comforter, my slightly messy room.

The sun was too bright, and a wave of nausea hit me.

Then, Jessica's sickeningly sweet voice drifted from the kitchen, "Emily? You up?"

My digital clock flashed 7:32 AM, April 12th – the day before my world ended.

Just then, Jessica appeared, her smile too wide, wanting to borrow my Mustang for the Desert Bloom festival.

The image of my beautiful car, mangled, a body on the asphalt, flashed before my eyes.

Last time, I'd been blind to her manipulative ways, handing over the keys to my dream car.

She drove it drunk, killed an innocent man, then, with my boyfriend Mike's help, used my own driver's license to frame me.

My denials were useless against their calculated lies and her fake tears.

I was abandoned, accused, then dragged from my apartment by the victim's son and his crew.

They left me broken on the side of the highway, my body never recovered.

The phantom pain echoed through my limbs, the memory of her betrayal and my agonizing death so vivid, so raw.

How was I back?

Why was I here, staring at these two people who orchestrated my destruction, their faces masks of innocence?

A choking rage, hot and living, simmered within me.

But this time, my eyes were wide open, and my voice was steady as I said the single, defiant word that would change everything: "No."

This time, they wouldn't get away with it.

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