ELLA
I had walked for a few minutes before I arrived at my destination. I had gone from wanting to head straight to the pub to letting my feet lead the way and just enjoying being outside in a town where I didn’t know anybody.
Occasionally, I would stop to look through the windows of shops that were still open, and at one junction, I paused to smell the flowers outside a florist shop.
They were the prettiest collection of lilies and petunias I had seen in a long time, and I was sad I couldn’t get some to take back with me.
It was better that way, if I were being honest. I didn’t have a vase to put them in back at the motel room, and if I did buy any, I wasn’t sure they’d survive all the living around and shuffling that we had to endure for the rest of the journey.
As I walked away fro
