Adrain I watched her skid away in tears, regret swelling up in my chest. running after her or telling her I didn’t mean any of the hurtful words I threw in her face would not fix the hatred that’s slowly growing in her heart. Hatred I specifically planted there. In my quest to protect her, all I have done was hurt her. if it kept her alive, then the sinking bridge of distance between us is a price I am willing to pay. everything I told her wasn’t completely attempt of a false bravado. Us meeting again was coincidence. What wasn’t coincidence was what happened later that night. The night she walked into my life again, I sensed her before I saw her. the inviting smell of floral, like roses under the early morning sunshine. I knew it was her before her painfully familiar brown eyes landed o

