Charie's Menagerie

I went home last weekend since I promised that no matter what happens I'll spend the first hours of my birthday with my sister. True enough, it went well. Everything was fine. The thing I feared the most didn't come. Then evening before my big day she touched the topic. I knew it was inevitable but I still hoped otherwise. I couldn't escape. I confessed.

She was confused. I clarified. She left to think and then came back.

'Why don't you go back and finish there what you started here.'

I was stunned. I didn't want to. Yet it was logical. Thoughts raced. I will have to give up some things. Some very dear things. My pride, my hope, my love, my other dreams. No I don't want to, yet a minute part of me says yes. I don't know which to let go. She was waiting for my reply.

'I'll think about it,' that was all I could say.