Your Love Failed Me the Way My Mother’s Never DidChapter 1
My best friend ended her life after crashing her car into my eldest brother, leaving him with a broken leg and then jumping from the thirtieth floor.
As she lay in a pool of blood, he said to me with a bright smile. "River, I'll wait for you over there!"
Only then did I understand she had chosen death to escape this world.
That night, I baked a birthday cake and shared the news of my departure in the family group chat.
Spencer, my second brother and a doctor, coldly replied with the number 1.
Then came a voice message from my third brother, Skyler, the international pop star, mocking me. "If you're going to die, just die already. All you ever do is envy Agnes. If you die today, I'll livestream myself eating shit!"
My parents stayed silent, but they flooded the chat with countless photos of Agnes celebrating her birthday at Disneyland.
Only my eldest brother, Sawyer, the CEO, sent one choked-up voice message after another. "River, you know where Kienna went, right? I beg you, tell me … "
I didn't say a word. Instead, I ate the cake all by myself. Soon, I would reunite with my real parents and brother.
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After finishing the last slice, I selected a suicide method from the system.
[Host, are you sure you want to choose this method?]
[This way of dying will be very painful. I suggest you reconsider.]
The system's mechanical voice warned me, but I ignored it and pressed the "confirm" button.
Once everything was done, I finally had time to check my phone. I found that the messages in the family group were still flooding the screen.
It was Agnes's eighteenth birthday and the Saint Family was throwing her a magnificent coming-of-age party.
For that event, Spencer canceled several surgeries to spend the entire day with her. Skyler even postponed his nationwide concert tour to sing her a birthday song.
But only Sawyer, lying in the hospital with a broken leg after being hit by my best friend's car, was still sending voice messages of regret. "River, please tell me where Kienna went. I'm begging you."
After listening to a few messages, I turned off my phone.
I threw the leftover cake into the trash and followed the system's guidance to the place where I'd end my life—Bexford Hospital.
Just as I reached the entrance, my phone rang.