Chapter 88: SOFIA
Life has always been a bitch.
But this... this was too much even for her.
In the space of four days, my life has totally shifted. Or was it three days, wait, is it five?
I don’t even know anymore. But each day I find myself entangled in things that I know won’t end well. The very thread of my life that has once run singularly after I lost my parents, now weave around others.
Richard. Cole. Harry. Anna. Erica. And now, Hermosa, or should I say, Cole’s mother.
One might wonder why I said my life was spinning on a single thread when there was Alicia, her daughters, Felix and Charlie. But these people weren’t really connected to my life. They are a part of my life, a part that I don’t really take seriously.
Perhaps that doesn’t make sense, but these people aren’t really connected to my life, my thread of life doesn’t really weave around them. At least not anymore.
Maybe there was once a time when it did, but over the years I have learned to separate myself from their lives. Now, their threads run separately from mine, occasionally weaving into mine.
And these recent entanglements, it seems no matter what I do, like the more I try to separate myself from them, the more I find myself stuck.
Meeting Hermosa Trail was another entanglement. One that had me at something of a stop. I may have wanted to take the job from her son and perhaps separate myself from Cole, but after the kindness she had shown me, it would be cruel to do it.
How could I get myself to take what was Cole’s after his mom just showered me with such kindness?
No. It’s better to be Charlie’s cleaner than to do something that cruel to the son of the woman who just proved me wrong about the world. Besides, if I do take the job, I won’t only be hurting Cole, but Hermosa as well.