Sparrow’s Song, Page 4

PANEL 1

Rachel lies in bed next to Sparrow, looking sad and distant. Sparrow appears to be asleep.

PANEL 2

A large metaphorical panel showing Rachel floating or sinking in dark water, curled up in a fetal position. Bubbles rise around her. The imagery conveys emotional drowning.

RACHEL (narration): Although it hurts to be this way, I will take anything he will give me.

RACHEL (narration): I keep hoping that if I do everything he wants and hang in there long enough...

RACHEL (narration): ...maybe, one day, he will love me and call me his girlfriend.

I was never this far gone. I don’t know why it was so important to me for a guy to call me his girlfriend. I think I just wanted that stability in my life. But I was never ready to change my core in the hopes that one day I’d “be worthy enough.” I guess I’m lucky that I’ve always held my own opinion of myself higher than a man’s.

This was where we cut the comic in two on gURL.com with this image: