After we regained ourselves, we went a couple of rounds until the early hours of the morning when I passed out.
When I woke up, it was late in the afternoon. The sun out high in the sky and blazing. The shelter was silent. I listened carefully to hear any sign that Violet was within the shelter but there was nothing.
I waited and waited but she didn’t come back. One day, two days she was nowhere to be seen and I was beginning to get pissed.
She showed up on the third day. I was sitting outside the shelter hoping to see her and there she was, coming out from the thick forest in all her glory.
But then she walked past me. Not sparing me a single glance or explanation. I marched in after her and grabbed her arms.
She pulled them roughly out of my grip and glared at me.
“Don’t you ever p
