So, mom just can't talk normally on the phone, she shout. Every single time. Not everyone is deaf, c'mon. But that's not the point.
Point is she was talking to a friend and said friend asked the usual question, how we were, after grandfather died. So she started to list all the family. Grandma is quite fine, better than expected actually, father is good, she's good too. My sister is fine, and anyway she has her boyfriend, he came to the funeral too and all.
She stops at me. Like she had no idea of how I was. And I wouldn't blame her, I don't speak, i don't ask anything, I don't cry when people can see me.
"I think she got it bad. And she's breaking a little."
Yeah. And no. Not a little. I am breaking a LOT.
I go to bed every night and I pray I won't dream anything, I pray If I do dream, I won't remember what in the morning. Because even if less than the first day, that dream still weights on my chest, and it weights a lot. I go to bed and I'm fucking afraid.
I keep the phone always close, during meetings too now, because it took me by surprise and I missed the first call because I was in a meeting, and it won't happen again.
I don't cry when someone can see me because I can't be seen weak. Because I promised I would take care of them, I promised I would be strong enough for them. So I cry when I'm alone, because I'm not strong for myself. I didn't cry when I saw him after swearing that morning that I wouldn't do it and I would just remember him as he was. But my sister was on the door so I went there and turned her so she wouldn't see. But I did. And I never saw someone dead before. But I didn't cry because I had to be strong for them.
It'll be 2 months in 10 days and I am breaking. I'm terrified of sleeping, of memories, of that feeling sitting on my chest.
And I'm scared I will truly break, sooner or later, I feel il happening, I feel bits and pieces shattering and I just-- can't.
I can only hope that when it will happen it'll be fast, like a car, like a train.
I'm not giving up, before anyone wonders, I'm not there yet, I'm not standing on the edge again, I swear. I'm just breaking. Just a little.