Status Updates From Flame

All these four years I had run from my past, thinking it wouldn’t follow. But I was foolish, reckless, to think I could outrun what everyone thought I’d done. I was falsely accused, but it didn’t matter. I was guilty of running, and that made me look guilty of everything else, too. Who was I to think I deserved happiness? Love?

Snuggling into the blanket, I curled up and started drifting off to sleep again. Just before I lost consciousness, I couldn’t quite silence the realization that had been creeping over me all night… I was falling in love with my stepbrother.

Despite all those questions, though, the biggest one of all haunted me the most, and it was the one I tried hardest to push away and bury under everything else: Did I really just come inside my own stepsister?

Calling it a night