She could feel someone behind her. The sky was dark and the air was cool. At first she thought she should be afraid, but fear didn’t hold her captive these days. She took the small dagger from the sheath at her back hidden beneath her leather coat and turned to face her stalker.
“It’s only me!” The man jumped back away from her and the glistening weapon.
She sheathed the dagger and eyed him cautiously. She thought the first time she saw him after their breakup it would be awkward. And it was, but mostly just for him.
“Why are you following me?” She asked.
“I was trying to get up the nerve to tell you I was sorry. I know when I left, I broke your heart. I should have done things differently.”
She threw her head back and laughed, her blonde hair taking on a light of it’s own. “I admit you bruised my heart and it was sore for a while. But you didn’t break it. If you had broken it, it would still ache from time to time like when I heard our song or when someone speaks your name. But it doesn’t ache, it doesn’t hurt. You didn’t make it bleed, if fact you didn’t even leave a scar.”
Lillith Elaine 