Chapter 38

I knew it, I felt it and lived with it from the day I met her. People thought I adopted her darkness but no, she simply activated my own. I always knew there was something wrong with me since my early misfortunes in life. The death of my biological parents, the infertility Mom had after they took me in. When I asked her what happened she looked at me with regret and said she didn't want to kill her but Tiana was pushing it, taunting her to do it and she snapped, one minute she was pleading for her to stop the next she was crying next to her dead body and I believed her, she was a lot of things but a liar wasn't among them. When the thought finally registered to me that Tiana was the dead one, I felt relief, relief I should have never felt. It was wrong and I thought I should atone for it by changing myself, becoming something she always pretended to be, we both did. Talitha told me she would become like Tiana, the perfect child if only she woke up but it was too late. Tiana was a