I have known her for 31 years. Yes, that long I would say. Maybe not interacted with her all that period, there has been a break, a long break in between. But we reconnected and it was as if there was never a break like we have always been together.
She was faithful, consistent, present and giving, very giving indeed. She paid the price, she sure did! And I trusted her. We became like sisters, tight sisters, like twins maybe, Siamese twice might be stretching the connection, but safe to say we were tight and it felt like we were a continuation of each other.
I was comfortable with her, natural, naked and not ashamed. I guess, I assume she felt the same way with me. We talked daily, just continued where ever we ended the previous day. She had my back and I had her back.
A day came when she burst out most suddenly, she said things I could not comprehend, I saw a different person, someone I could not recognise. I was scared, shocked and confused all at the same time. I was speechless, could not utter a word, and nothing seem to make sense. “Who is this” I wondered and asked “where is the person I use to know” or that I thought I knew. I could not run to my sister, my friend to tell her all that had happened as she was “all that had happened”. We met up, I opened my mouth to speak but ‘nothing’ came out. Don’t get me wrong, I did speak and she did speak, we spoke, but it was ‘nothing’.
We tried to continue as usual, but I noticed things are different, I am now an observer, no longer was I blindly and unreservedly involved, I was assessing and saw the personality unfold, unravel and stare me clearly in the face. “Has it always been like this and I just haven’t paid attention”? “Did I make so much allowance?” “Did I stretch the credit too far”?
As the personality unveiled all I wanted to do was stay away.
Beautiful Ivory 