Hearts

The YuYu Doll proceeded to cry again in pain. I stopped running as I could hear Izusaki’s words terrifying herself.

“I don’t know why I am like this. Why everyone runs away from me. Or maybe… It was all me wasn’t it? It was all my fault and I kept messing up everything. The stitches of my past, I must keep them away from other people. So that they don’t become… What I am now.”

My heart sank.

I didn’t know for sure about what I was just hearing, but after all of that had happened, I thought about the entire fact that Izusaki’s loneliness stemmed from more than just a simple desire to feel accepted again. She didn’t ever feel like she had a real home. A place that she could always come back to and be herself.

Although I knew Sire was the main reason she went through that tragedy of her childhood, it was going to take more than me telling her it would be alright.

Something had to change.

Walking steadily over to YuYu, I sat down beside her, putting my fears aside. I tried to touch the doll’s soft hand as I had done with Izusaki.

It kept inching away.

“Stop trying to make me feel better. Can’t you see that I’m a reckless monster? I don’t deserve anything...”

The negativity that she felt was holding her back. She was truly convinced that she was the source of my problems and I knew it wasn’t true.

No. Words weren’t going to fix this.