feuerdove:

     Comprehension hit her and it hit her hard. 
     And being made about it was easy, what
     wasn’t easy was how she felt disappointed.
     Sad, even.

     Leaning against the wall near the opened
     window, she crosses her arms.

     ❝ You didn’t really mean all those things 
     you said, did you? Did you say them so I
     would stop running away, just for a moment? ❞

           _{“ ––- huh?”}

  _{[ It’s been awhile. Jude scarcely remembers}

    _{the last conversation they had, or much of}

    _{anything that happened just before she left.}

    _{Everything is all blurry and dreamlike when}

    _{it comes to Low. She’s like a vacation, a}

    _{temporary and grateful absence from}       

    _{his present reality. ]}                                           

           _{“Sorry, I, um –– you know you’ve been gone for so long.”}