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A Secret That I Am Afraid to Talk About
A real writing prompt
I received this title as one of the writing prompts from Neil Gaiman’s MasterClass. The idea of writing this secret debilitates me.
This secret that I am afraid to talk about happened many years ago when I was fourteen. My mother has told me stories many times before, not to trust strangers and there are bad people out there who takes advantages of young girls like myself. She has told me all the bad things that could have and had happened to many other girls, but she did not once teach me how to retaliate or protect myself if one of those unfortunate things do happen. And it did.
My secret takes me back to the day I trusted a boy that I liked. I liked him much enough to believe anything about him, only though that very day, a tiny voice in me reminded me of what my mother said. Being the defiant teenager that I was, I justified with myself that bad things could never happen to me. Going against that small voice I later come to learn as my intuition, I went to meet that boy, who meant the world to me in my naive fourteen year old’s eyes.
We were supposed to meet in the cinemas, but at the very last minute, before I left home, he told me he was still getting ready. He asked if I could go to his place instead so that we could head off together to the cinemas. That sounded like a…
