You’ll Claw My Eyes Out

I left the hospital and drove to the V Group. Kieran was in the middle of a meeting. I waited for him in his office. It was decorated in his usual style of black, white and shades of grey. Sometimes I suspected that he was colour-blind. I sat in a plush armchair and killed zombied on my phone, but soon got bored. That was when I saw a photo frame on his desk. Like the cat that got killed by curiosity, I just had to look. I saw three people in the photo. They were all dressed in scuba diving wetsuits and smiling at the camera. Behind them was a patch of crystal clear blue sea. Kieran stood on the far left. Another boy stood on the far right. In the middle was a girl. The photo must have been taken a long time ago. Kieran looked to be about seventeen or eighteen, no longer a teenager but not yet a man. I felt a sharp pang in my heart when I saw the girl’s face. It was so much like mine. I thought I was looking at myself back in high school. ‘Amiyah.’ I was so focused on the photo, I didn