Chapter Song – Cold - Blood Red Shoes
My palms were damp, and so were his as he held my hands. I felt waves of stressors pile, topple, and crash over me. It started with that familiar dull ache that spreads across the chest, followed by a lump in the throat, which trickles to strain one’s jaw as if it were a signal for the tears to flow. I willed my breathing to normalize for I didn’t want hysterics to overtake me. I wondered if Sean felt the same. He looked frustrated, enraged almost. His expression made it all the more difficult for me to process any coherent thought as to why we were feeling this way. I’ve never seen him like this. Truth be told, I was scared. For the first time, I felt uncomfortable around him.
My chest squeezed in panic. It wasn’t showing, but I was hyperventilating
