Come on Erin, don’t be an idiot.
Maybe he’s already got his eye on someone for
tonight.
And yet, he looked at me. He lifted his splendid
black eyes and I got lost, surrounded by the
devastating warmth they emit.
I break the short contact by turning away and
squeezing my eyes tightly shut. Rain comes
towards me to ask if everything is all right, and I
give her a quick nod to reassure her, but I know
she’s not buying it.
I get out of there as fast as I can, going straight
towards the back. I open the door that leads to my
temporary apartment and run up as the last notes of
the songs keeps time with my tears. I throw myself
on my bed, hiding my head in my pillow, trying to
suffocate my sobs.
My life is already complicated enough as it is, I
don’t need to add any fuel to the fire.
And yet … and yet, he looked atme,not the
others. For once, I felt like I was the center of his
world and the very idea completely terrified me,
because I know him, I know who he is and how he
reacts.
And even if I know that in reality he’s just a
man with a broken heart, I know I’m not the one
for him, just as I know he’s not at all what I need.
Not now, not in the future.
Patrick
As the night ends, it would appear that the brunette
