Defect

I should have died in the car crash.
When I woke up from the coma, my mother told me my twin brother was dead…
I wanted to die too.

I knew nothing would ever be the same.
I just didn’t know how right I was.

The crash left me with irreparable brain damage.
I’d never be normal again.
I was labeled a defect by everyone at home.
A flaw.
God took the wrong twin.
I was stuck in a nightmare.

But when I met her, everything changed.
My sunflower.
She shone a light on the twisted lie I’d been living.
I was forever grateful for her friendship but I couldn’t get too close.
I was broken.
I broke everything I touched…
And I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if she crumbled because of me.