If I Was Your Girl

by Meredith Russo

Maybe secrets and lies were a part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.

God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.

“You can have anything,” she said, “once you admit you deserve it.”