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Prologue

Prologue

Juniper

One Year Ago

The whole world was a dark rainbow. A spiraling, dizzying rainbow of fractured love and light. Yellow, turquoise and splotches of moss green were disrupted by crackling black veins. This was my world. This was my everything, and it all had to come crumbling down.

"I love you Piper," he said. I longed for those words and the person that said them. I wanted to stay here forever and hear those four simple words for the rest of my life, but I couldn't. I focused on his face. The strong brow and proud smile that always greeted me. Eyes that mirrored mine completely stared back at me without seeing me. They were beacons of light in this cruel twisted lie.

" I love you too,' I said knowing that the people I wanted to hear those words never would. They were gone and I wanted to join them, but not yet. I watched his beautiful caring smile as he said to me again " I love you Piper". I crushed the shards of glass stabbing into my heart. The world around me shuddered and the cracks began to split open where all the vibrant colors met. This was why I had to end things here and now.

I gathered all the love in my heart, and forced it to flood my body. There was a rush of warm, rosy, heat that coursed through my veins until it reached my hands. Lifting up my wide-spread arms to the world. To my world. I released it all in one push, and watched the world around me shatter into a million green shards.