She was calm. So calm.
A master at hiding her true feelings, huh.
She felt like a parent trying to scold a pair of immature arguing kids. Ugh, grown-ups. Sometimes they’re worse than troublesome children. Why must they complicate things so?
She didn’t want to feel. She wanted to be numb, indiffirent, manhid.
She wanted to be unaffected by it all.
She wanted to be strong for her sister, who was crying because of it.
Will they never learn?
She kept up the calm facade, because she had to be firm, she had to be stable.
When the young ones were safely off to school, she locked herself in her room.
Perched on the edge of her bed, she wept.