-TO FORGET A LOVE-

Take my hand, and Ill take your heart

I grew to love you even more than before, so stay okay? If if you can't know I'll find you.

Our world that existed was small. And one that could barely hold maybe 100 people. And even with that, people left and vanished every day.

    We were told we were privileged, people who had survived the recent events of the city. People who had another go at life.

    I was never sure about that.

    I was one of the lesser people in this "community"

    Someone who served little to no purpose to anyone. Then there were people like him. Ace was a much higher rank than me, and held a lot of power in a group like this. He had people flocking him constantly, and he had good meals too.

    I didn't know if I wanted to be him, or if I hated him. He was too goddamn pretty for his own good.

    I walked the same way I had every day, the huge halls of this place only greeting me with silence. Ships whizzed by outside, the limited people occupying them completing their morning rounds. Continuing to walk, I glanced occasionally outside, the planet we were near bright and lighting up the entirety of the walkway.

Making it to the cafeteria, chatter lightly buzzed between the small     groups of people. Tightly knit systems of friends who've had all the time they could want to get to know each other.

I made it to the station that gave us our daily meals. Tapping in my number and scanning my fingerprint, food was given to me. Why it had such high security I never knew.

The hardest part about living on this ship, is that no matter how big it is, or how big it feels, I was never alone. Even in my room it felt like eyes were on me.

Maybe that's why I did what I did. Maybe that's why, even now in this open cafeteria, with only 5 or 6 small groups of friends, who had no obvious curiosity in me, it felt like millions of eyes were looking down on me. Observing my every move as if it were the one to get them killed.

Which in a way, was very true.

No matter how often I had tried to prove myself to these people, it never ended well.

"Ace!" A high pitched voice yelled from across the room, stumbling me out of my thoughts. I had just now realized I was standing just staring at my food for god knows how long.

A tall and rather slim man walked from across the room, and as I stared, I could've sworn for just a minute his gaze met mine. His hazel eyes staring deep into my gray ones.

And before I knew it, he was sitting at a rather large group of people, enjoying their food that was fit for gods. It was almost funny how I always got some sort of soup, no matter the meal. I ate it regardless.

The day felt like any other. Chores and distantly staring off into every possible window. Space is gorgeous ya know? The ever changing colors of the nearby nebula. The rings almost spinning around the planet, stars glistening far from us, just barely in view. I wanted to fly among that. And not in the normal way, in the way that would kill me. How I'd love to just float, soaring from galaxy to galaxy, no urgent thing on my mind. Just colors. Just the feeling of freedom, the feeling that I've yearned for ever since I got "saved".

"It really is pretty isn't it?" A voice spoke from behind me, dark and oddly warm. My head spun to face him. Ace. His brown dreads falling into his face, eyes light compared to his skin. He was scarily close to me, and our noses were way too close together. I pushed my back further into the chair behind me, my face suddenly hot.

"Yes." His eyes still bore into mine. "Yes it's beautiful." We stayed like that for a minute, as I was terrified to move. A ship whirred past the window outside, pulling Ace's attention away from me. He leaned back and sighed, pulling his arms over his head to stretch them. I pulled my gaze away, leaning back onto my palm to stare out the window once again.