Natalia:
The night air was sharp, cool against my skin as I stood on the veranda, arms wrapped around myself.
The stars blinked faintly above, scattered across the darkness, but I wasn’t really looking at them. My gaze was somewhere far beyond, somewhere I couldn’t reach.
Somewhere that I knew all of this did not exist. Somewhere where I believed that I wanted to be happy. My past, my present, my future. Nothing really made sense to me. But I just found myself caught in the middle of all of it.
I didn’t hear him at first.
But I felt him.
The weight of his presence, heavy and undeniable, settled at my back before his footsteps gave him away.
I didn’t turn.
I didn’t want to.
Truth be told, because I knew that if I had turned to face him, I wouldn't be able to speak or say anything.
