Would You Go Back?
You have this friend since elementary and after college, the both of you never talked to each other or called each other anymore. But she is someone very special to you and you are someone very special to her, too. Five years later, you received a phone call from her.
“Hi Michelle! I’ll visit you,” she said.
“Hi Leah! When?” you asked her.
“Just wait for me,” she replied.
It seemed weird but you prepared for her coming anyway.
One rainy night, you heard a knock on the door. And you’re surprised to see that it’s your friend Leah. Losing touch for five years is long that the both of you talked about everything. The both of you even went to your room upstairs. Suddenly, there was a brown-out. So the two of you talked by candle light. Then the phone rang.
“I’ll just get the phone downstairs,” you said, since there’s no phone upstairs.
“No, don’t get it. We’re in the middle of our girl talk,” she said.
“It might be important,” you said.
“Okay, if you say so. But promise me you’ll be back,” she said.
So you promised her a million times that you’d be back. Then you ran downstairs to answer the phone.
“Hello,” you said.
“Hi. Is this Michelle?” the person on the other line asked.
“Yeah,” you said, wondering who it was.
“I called in behalf of Leah’s family. They had a tragic accident and her parents are in the hospital right now,” he continued.
“And Leah?” you asked, forgetting that Leah was upstairs.
“She died,” he said then hung up. You slowly put the phone down and looked at the long dark stairs…
Would you go back as you promised?
