“You should go, no one wants you here,” was Rose’s last words before she opened the door to the building and went back inside, leaving me alone in the freezing weather wearing a fancy white dress with black tights which were ripped from running down the steps. I felt like Cinderella at the end of her ball when midnight strikes and she goes from being a princess full of happiness and joy to a servant that no one seems to care about except for her pets.
Tossing the bouquet on the floor, I walked away into the night and let my empty soul sink into the darkness where the stars in the sky seemed to have disappeared into the grey clouds with the promise to never return.
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I snap back into reality when a, elderly woman taps me on the shoulder. “Are you all right, dear?” she asks kindly.
