Country: Aurivelle
City: Auremont
Alvara
A month passed.
Not quietly.
Not easily.
At first, I waited.
Not in a way anyone could see..but in the small, silent ways that lived inside me.
The way my eyes lingered a second too long on unfamiliar faces.
The way my chest tightened whenever footsteps echoed too close behind me.
The way sleep came lightly, fragile, as if I was always prepared to wake and run.
I told myself I wasn’t waiting for him.
I told myself I didn’t care.
But a part of me…
A stubborn, restless part…
Was still waiting for the door to burst open.
Waiting for everything I had tried to leave behind to come crashing back into my life.
Waiting for Adrian.
But he never came.
Days turned into weeks.
Weeks turned into a month.
And slowly… painfully… something be
