It did n’t take long till the heat and the brightness of the forenoon Sun woke her up from her peaceable sleep. Escaping the drapes, the bright beams hit her sleepy face. She could n’t travel. Did n’t even trouble oneself to look into the clip. Gazing at the white ceiling, she embraced the numbness that came with the past twelvemonth.

Nothing in the universe could hold prepared her for that minute. Over and over, she had replayed that dark in her caput. Over and over, she had wondered what could hold been done to forestall it. A portion of her wished that it was merely a bad dream, but she knew it was n’t. She knew that a twenty-four hours would come where they would n’t understand each other. One twenty-four hours they would hold to reason. All twosomes fought one time in a piece, right? But she did n’t anticipate him to give up so easy.

Naive, for the deficiency of a better word, that ‘s what she was. She was 16 old ages old, how much cognition could she hold known when it came to relationships, as this had been her first. How could she hold known that non all statements in a relationship ended good. She did n’t, entirely because she unwisely believed that the bond of love could hold surpassed anything. It was the love affair novels, or perchance the Disney Princess films that had blinded her from the existent truth. She was excessively much of a romantic to believe pessimistically when it came to love stoping. Her parents did n’t assist with her get bying. They ne’er knew.

She ne’er had the backbones to state them about him. Bing brought up within an Asiatic household, came with rigorous outlooks and old bias. They would hold ne’er approved of him. She was Asiatic, and he was African American. It was merely something that her household would hold ne’er accepted. It was painful, non being able to present him to her parents. She did n’t like the secretiveness, it was n’t right and yet she was n’t willing to give him up. She had sacrificed so much, and this was how it ended. She was entirely.

She blinked as she forced herself out of bed. She looked about at her comparatively apparent sleeping room. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just a field working desk along her wall, a chest of drawers right following to it. The clean white walls besides did n’t assist with the vitamin D & A ; eacute ; cor of the room. This room could hold belonged to no 1. Just an empty infinite filled with the necessary furniture. She reached under her bed and pulled out a journal. She opened it to the bookmarked page, and held up a exposure. She stared at it for a minute and smiled unhappily. She recalled the happy memory frozen by the exposure. It was the lone thing left, that reminded her of him. She felt a pang as she continued to look at it. With impulse, she laid it down where she could n’t see it.

Even the happy memories had managed to do her feel bad. She bit her lip, walked to the public toilet, and prepared herself to what she would see in the mirror. Her black hair was in different waies. Dark circles shadowed her eyes. It was n’t her best, but it certainly was better than the forenoon after the break-up.

Walking back to her room, one time once more she reached for the exposure. She patted her wet cheeks and found herself shouting involuntarily. She tried her best to wipe up herself up, but she knew it was useless. She could n’t travel on making this mundane. Keeping on to something that was evidently gone long ago. It was anguish, and she was a sap to allow it maintain traveling. Of class she knew it would be impossible. She knew that the memories would go on to remain. But it was no ground for her to give her life, and if anything her felicity by being tied to the yesteryear.

She walked to her drawer, and pulled out a igniter. Take a deep breath and allow out a forced smiling. But still, it was a smiling. As she watched the fire dance around the exposure, she thought. Even though it would take old ages, and her bosom will go on to hanker for him. And one time in a piece, she would happen herself shouting once more. She made up her head: with or without him, she will travel on.