The Missing Piece

by Kiersten Modglin

Getting up was the easy part. Facing the day was where it got hard.

Friends are just enemies who know all your biggest secrets and are waiting for a chance to use them against you.”

The clock on the dash said it was 4:04 in the morning. Somehow, I knew I would never forget that time.

You’ll often hear that time heals all wounds, and I believe that it does, but more importantly, I believe that time is cruel. It doesn’t pick and choose. It doesn’t care if you are a good person. In the end, it only cares that it keeps moving, keeps taking. What about the truth?”

The same person told me that though time is known to heal, time is actually cruel. Despite every single thing time steals from you, it will never take one thing away. No matter how many nights you spend awake, how many meals you miss, or how many stares you try not to notice; time is just time, and no matter how much time passes, it will never let you forget the truth.”