Illusions

Ferrara

I had been scared a number of times, for different reasons.

My mind had been plunged into the same sea of my own fears, sunk by my imaginations of losing Katya.

What if she decided that what I had done was unforgivable and left me right after I told her the truth?

Would I be able to survive a minute without her, after knowing the enthralling feeling of her love?

"I am sorry, Katya." I started to say, feeling my brows draw together, and the quick race of my heartbeat beneath my chest.

Those slender fingers that had my ring seconds ago, reached upwards and slid the shades off her eyes, those arresting delicate pupils resting on me.

Guilt jabbed into my throat, snuffing out every word I had been about to say, confessions which I had dreaded to make, killing me from the outside.

She stared into my eyes, and I felt the hand of karma descend on me.

"Forgive me, baby, but..." I shook my head, pausing for a moment to get some air into my constricting lungs, then I continued,

"I can't