Chapter 31

Jason dropped me off at my sister's house as early as five on Tuesday morning and I could already feel my sister's pain before entering the house.
I knocked on the door for almost five minutes before I finally heard her footsteps. She opened the door and I could tell that she just woke up because of how red her eyes were.
She stared at me for sometime and rubbed her face twice before calling my name quietly "Lexi"
Her voiced cracked and she aged ten years more
"Lexi, is that you?"
"Yes" I replied
"My Lexi? Are you my Lexi?"
"Yes, sis. It's me"
"My Lexi" she cried and hugged me "My Lexi" she cried louder
"Sis"
"Why Lexi? Why?" She said between tears
"I'm sorry"
"You left without even thinking of me"
"I'm sorry"
She released me from her tight hug and started checking me out as if something might be missing
"The real?"
"Yes, the real"
"But you're fatter"
"That's because you're going