Setting the scene…
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The Quiet Room
14 year old Emily is interviewed by police about a murder. They believe she has something to hide and won't give up on pressuring her to talk. Emily can't reply on her mother, wanting to protect her from the emotional consequences brewing
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Previously
…But hope was a luxury I couldn't afford. Not tonight. Tonight, I lay in the quiet, letting the tears come again, silent this time. I let myself mourn—for my mother, for the rabbit, for the girl I had been before that terrible night. And when the tears were spent, I stared at the ceiling and counted the cracks in the paint. One, two, three. A jagged triangle, like a broken tooth. Just like the table in the interview room. I had come full circle. Back to the beginning, back to the silence, back to the weight of secrets and lies. The only difference was that now, I had nothing left to hold on to. I closed my eyes and let the darkness take me.