Their words swirled around me, choking me. But I ignored them and went upstairs. I headed straight to Solana’s room. It was the one thing that had kept me sane everyday in prison… the thought of feeling her presence again in this room.
But I got the shock of my life when I opened the door. Solana’s things were gone. And in its place, were all of Naomi’s belongings. Her dresses were in the closet. Her perfume was on the vanity. Solana’s pink fairy room had been turned into a sanctuary for Naomi.
I staggered back.
“I needed a room,” Naomi said flatly, appearing behind me, as if that excused it.
“There are six rooms in this house, you could have had any other room.”
“I wanted this one.” She said nonchalantly. “It’s the one with the best view.”
“How dare you!?” I yelled, like something had snapped inside of me. “Was killing my daughter not enough? Did you have to completely erase everything about her too? What did I ever do to you?”
Naomi stared at me like I was crazy, and then she burst into laughter.
“You want to know what you did? You stole my life, Cassandra. Isaac should have been mine. All of this should have been mine! The money, the love, the respect. You stole it!”
“You’re insane, Naomi. All I have ever done is be a good friend to you. I took you in when you had nowhere else to go, and this is how you repay me?”
I didn’t wait for her to say more. I was seeing red now. I didn’t know what possessed me, but I was tearing the room down before I knew it. I shoved her make up off the vanity, tore her clothes down from the racks, and then I headed to the table and pushed the flower vase off of it. It fell to the floor and sent pieces flying everywhere. When I was done, I turned back to Naomi who was staring wide eyed.
“You think you’re crazy, don’t you? You want to see crazy?” She yelled. “I’ll show you crazy!”
Naomi walked to the nearest shard of glass on the floor, and pressed her foot on it. It all happened so fast.
“Fuck! Isaac!!!!!” She yelled out in pain, holding her bleeding foot with her hand.
Isaac and Julian came running in an instant. His eyes widened when he saw the state of the room. Julian ran to hold Naomi.
“Cassandra, what did you do?” Isaac asked.
Naomi sobbed. “I was just trying to console her. I know how hard life in prison must have been for her, but instead, she hit me, and then she did this to my room and pushed me over the glass!”