i was sa’ed we were in the movies and there were 2 other girls and 2 more guys but me and him were very close. we went to the movies in a shopping centre when the others decided to go get some snacks from a place far away in the shopping centre. me and him were left alone and then he started saying weird things like i wanna do things and stuff (we had the cinema to ourselves) he then got on top of me and started kissing my neck and slowly down he then covered my mouth as he massages my chest with one of his hands, he then wrapped his jumper around my mouth and started massaging my breast and touching my thighs and going up towards my i was screaming as loud as i could and then he put his hands under my shirt and started whispering weird things like “u have a sexy figure” then he got to my shorts and tried unzipping my jeans but he heard the door open, he quickly got back in his seay and i was still crying. i ran to the bathroom and as i was walking out i heard him say she got an upsetting text from her mum just dont ask her about it. ill never forget that day

My great grandmother was around 92 years old when she passed away. Throughout my life I have seen her a lot since she lives relatively close (about 20-30 mins away). I moved away to florida for college in 2020. Fall of my freshman year in college covid was huge and my great grandmother wasn’t doing too well. Spring rolled around and my great grandmother had beaten covid and pneumonia. She was a very strong woman. I was about a month away from being home when she was put in the hospital again for covid symptoms. Everything seemed to be fine with her health but my mom asked me to facetime her cause she missed me. I facetimed her later that night and promised her I would see her in a month. She passed away about a week later while I was on spring break. It was slightly unexpected given her age and health condition. I was at the bar with my friends. Safe to say it changed my night around really fast. I was 3 hours away from my school with friends for spring break. My parents didn’t want to fly me all the way up the next day for the funeral and ruin the rest of my vacation because it was a decent amount of money to fly on such short notice. I watched the funeral from a room at my friends beach house. I couldn’t help but cry because of how awful I felt that I couldn’t be there. My regret isn’t that I wasn’t able to say bye. My regret is all the times I could’ve gone over there when i got older and had a car and chose not to because she lived so close and I thought I saw her enough with my family. When I got back home for summer break I went to her grave to honor the last promise I made to her. Just wish I could’ve did it in person.

• June 27, 2023