Chapter 25: Bitter regrets
Chapter twenty five
**Kieran Morisson**
I remembered how he stood behind his mom the whole time, as if he had been terrified of us.
I was the first to approach him. For some reason, I wanted to be friends with the shy little boy. I kind of liked him because he was cute, his large green eyes had been so perfect on his delicate features.
Through continuous family visits, we got to know each other, and the three of us became friends and became inseparable.
I used to have a crush on him, something I’d never admit aloud. Even at that age, I knew I liked him differently, my feelings towards him was different from how I treated Ginny, but I didn’t understand it then.
Time went past successively until that fateful day when my whole world came crashing down. It was a day that would be forever embedded in my memories. It always slashed my heart like a thousand knives each time I remembered it, just like right now.
It had been Ginny’s birthday, and I wanted to give her a surprise. Like always, our parents weren’t around. They were gone on one of their usual trips.
All three of us had gone to summer camp that year. It was supposed to be the best week of our lives—campfires, hiking, swimming in the lake. Ginny had been so excited about spending her birthday there.
But she had been feeling weak that morning. The camp nurse said it was just a cold, nothing serious. I should have insisted she stay back at the infirmary. I should have stayed with her.
Instead, I went with to the camp store to get the surprise I’d planned for her, a small birthday cake the counselors had helped me arrange.
I had told both of them to wait at our cabin while I went to get it, but Ginny said she wanted to go to the main lodge where it was warmer.