The Right Way

Written in response to https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/reenas-xploration-challenge-325/

Whilst searching for my sanity, I’ve become my worst enemy, but my most trusted ally. It was a hard journey, but hope was like a budding flower. I have been on this road before, and turned the key the right way.

Recovery was possible.

Without the constant business, I could forgive myself. Joe’s suicide wasn’t my fault. We were all betrayed by Richard. If we thought about it properly, he was always a suspect. Barbara? None of us saw it coming.

All three were friends when they were teenagers.

It hit Tony the hardest; pretending to be his friend, holding his heart when he lost his husband. Barbara was his family. They worked together for two years; however, her empathy was for her own self.

‘You okay?’ Mike asks.

I close my suitcase. For the first time there is nothing more to be scared about. The choice to change my career is easy. Seeing half the world in colour, and the other in grey, and there are many who are worse off than me.

‘Yea, looking forward to leaving, and staying with Tony.’

‘I bet, at least the cooking is going to be better.’

‘Not so sure about that, but he offered to let me stay until I find a more permanent home. Working with you guys is slightly slower than I am used to, but it is where I want to be.’

‘Well, there is an opening,’ Mike says.

His attempt at a joke, and we both laugh.

I don’t see you, Joe, but it means I have got better. I can move on with my life.