The Hardest Goodbye

Tessa felt like she'd been drifting through a dream that wouldn't end.

All throughout it, people kept coming by her side and saying things.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't catch a single word.

Footsteps sounded in her ears.

'Who's come this time?' she wondered.

She struggled to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt like they weighed a ton.

"I'm sorry. This is all my fault," that familiar