Chapter 13

Edith

When his shape disappears entirely from my field of vision, I get up and hurry to the exit of the large living room, closing the door as I had found it.

I do not want to see anyone, I do not want to talk to anyone, so I head to my room to be alone. Completely alone. This is what I need now. I enter my room and lock my door.

Tears have already begun to flow down my eyes... How can this happen to me?

I do not want this to happen to me. I deny it.

But it is not enough for only the mind but also the heart to deny it. But the heart is stubborn, it does not want to give up on what it started to feel, but that makes me suffer.

But how can something like this happens so soon? So sudden? How is that possible? Is it possible?

I fall face down on the bed and tuck my face into the pillow. I allow myself to cry in the safety of my loneliness.

Without realizing it, I fall asleep and know it only when I he