*Isla*

I’m underwater again.

This time isn’t like the last time, though. I know immediately that things are different.

This time, I’m more angry than I am afraid, but I don’t feel the same pressure that I did last time either. I feel like I am storming off, running away, riding my white horse off into the sunset….

But I also feel like it probably shouldn’t be a white horse. I know I’ve done awful things, and I know that I’ve screwed everything up. I’m not the hero in this story….

I’m the villain.

Normally, I’m okay with that. I don’t mind being the one who stirs up all of...