~~Lyra ~~
“It was just once.”
That’s what she said.
Those exact words.
And I swear — for a second — I didn’t even feel my body anymore. I was outside myself, hovering somewhere above the chaos like a rejected angel watching my life burn in real time. I blinked. My ears rang. My soul detached. I was standing there in heels and heartbreak, in the middle of a party I didn’t even want, and my best friend just looked me in the eye and said it was just once.
Once.
Like that somehow made it better.
Like that made the d**k smaller. The betrayal softer. The memory less soul-crushing.
I stared at her.
I stared so long and so hard my vision blurred.
“You f****d him.”
My voice cracked. Not because I was confused. But because I was confirming it out loud for the first time. My brain needed m
