She didn't break all at once. Silently, she broke, fissures appearing where no one could see them. By the time it appeared, only a girl who had mastered the ability to bear suffering as if it were her own was left to save.To her, love was never gentle. She pursued it but was never able to grasp it; it was conditional and far away. In the hopes that one day someone would genuinely choose her, she shrank herself.Then he appeared as a storm that she thought was the sky. His words, his attention, and his seemingly endless promises consumed her. And she took him at his word.
Storms, however, pass.He didn't simply disappear when he faded; instead, he unraveled her, leaving behind a girl who was still burning from what she had once called warmth.
