Shelley: A Christian Paranormal Novella by P Willow Cynthia

Author:P Willow, Cynthia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

Narie unsuccessfully fought back tears; they came uninvited anyway. Mom, I’m sorry you were so sad and alone. You were always alone. Even with me, you were alone.

“Are you okay?” Narie looked up and saw Nona standing at the door.

“I’m fine. I was thinking about Mom. I miss her.”

“Oh…I miss her, too.”

“I wonder about that.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“Words…they’re easy. Did you ever look for her?”

“Words are not always easy. I didn’t look for her and she didn’t want to be found. She left and never looked back…she wanted no part of me. Still didn’t when she died. Believe me, I loved Nat with all my heart…. Life’s not simple…there are always two sides to every story. Ours was a very complicated story. ”

“Well, I have nowhere to go and all the time in the world to listen. What’s your side of the story? Mom never told me about you. All I know is what’s in the diaries. In the last one she wrote before she left, she says Shelley and Nathaniel left and you went crazy.”

“Yes, that’s the way Nat saw it. Things were not pleasant between us. At the time, the battles seemed important to both sides. Today, I live with regrets of what could’ve been…what should’ve been. I wish I had tried to find Nat, but I don’t know if coming back here would’ve been good for her. She moved on and eventually made a good life for herself somewhere else. I’m proud of who she became. Before she left, I took her to counseling, but it didn’t turn out the way I had hoped it would.”

“Counseling for what, Nona?”

“Everything got so out of hand. Nat was horribly depressed…I was afraid of what she might do.”

“I see. That explains some things about Mom.”

“My Nat, though, she was a survivor…or at least she was until she got cancer…. I hate cancer!”

“I hate it, too. Why do good people get cancer?”

“It’s a sinful world we live in, Narie.”

“Are you saying Mom’s sins caused the cancer?”

“No! That’s not what I’m saying. I believe that the presence of sin—universal sin—can cause illnesses. Nat was a wounded soul whose wounds never healed. No one deserves cancer…Nat certainly didn’t. She didn’t deserve any of the bad things that happened to her. I can never undo the pain that was inflicted upon her. When I think how stupid I was. If I had made different choices…if I…so many ifs.” Nona’s voice broke, and she quickly left the room.

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