Strawberry Flavoured

21

"Today would be her fourteenth birthday. She would be a teenager, soon going to highschool and getting her first boyfriend."

You started staring at the waves again. They came crashing down in front of us, only bits of water reaching us.

I looked over at you. Your eyes were glazed and tears were still streaming down your cheeks. Your lips were chapped and your nose was red.

"She was so vulnerable," you spoke softly.

You are so vulnerable, I thought to myself.