Unravel, Michelle Johnson-Lane [books to read for 12 year olds txt] 📗

be sealed by fate. Besides hairdos, there was only one distinct difference between Matilda and Tilly and that was Tilly’s Irish heritage. Matilda needed Tilly because she had never opened up to anyone before. Matilda dumped it on like thick syrup on a sundae that oozed inside Tilly’s veins, forever connecting the two. Tilly, however, didn’t share very much with Matilda; her only goal was to listen and ease her new-found friend’s pain.

Even after several years, Tilly had a time trying to rid herself of the stories Matilda had shared with her. As her friend had divulged her suppressed memories, every one became etched in Tilly’s mind like a cemetery with names and dates written on tombstones of deceased loved ones permanently resting in place. Many permeated her soul, and Tilly even imagined them as if it had happened to her. Matilda’s past haunted Tilly through nightmares and every day she mentally played out the horrible memories. She thought constantly of Matilda’s mother, Marianne, and the torture Matilda had experienced because she was a product of an interracial marriage. Not a day went by that Tilly didn’t think about Matilda, hoping she found herself.

Tilly kept placing herself in Matilda’s life of pain and suffering. She knew Matilda lived her entire life in bondage and just needed to break free. In her own way, Tilly had to accept that Matilda needed to find freedom, and that there was no need to search for her. She forced herself to tuck away the memories and all the shared secrets.

Tilly never spoke of Matilda to anyone, not even her one and only love. She felt it was best to hide any remnants of her friend and continued to live her life as if Matilda McGraw had never existed. The secrets Matilda shared with Tilly were private; they were entrusted to only her.
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Text: COPYRIGHT ~ Unravel © 2011 (July 28, 2011)
Editing: Jessica Chapman, owner of JC Writing & Editing
Publication Date: 04-29-2011

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