I sighed as I glanced at the clock across from me atop my dresser. 3:09 AM. Oh wait, 3:10 AM. Grumbling, I stumble from my bed and into my bathroom. It's been this way mostly ever since she left me.
Her name was Dahlia, but I don't talk of her memory much anymore. It hurts.
Dahlia had a thing about leaving notes with times on them. 3:09 AM. It's the time in which I once found her cheating on me, and also the time she addressed her note of absence.
'I'm sorry.' Of course you were; I scoffed at my thoughts. I gazed back at myself in the cold glass of the basin mirror. I enraged myself. I wanted nothing more than to merely destroy my reflection – perhaps even, myself.
I returned my looks to the bathroom sink and stared into the depths of the plughole as I splashed my face with water.
What have I become? I'm really not sure who I am anymore. Dahlia changed me for the better, and then left me to degrade. I wince softly at my thoughts. Everything simply reminds me of what her and I had once had.
It was glorious; at least, what I remember of it after the days I spent mourning her lingering non-existence.
Jogging downstairs, I entered the living room. Leilani was sat there once more, just watching the leaves flutter in the wind outside.
"You know," I started, "The best view is upstairs in the attic. It has a gigantic window. Your mother always used this big word for that window... What was it? Hmm, oh, um, I think it was 'leviathan'." I laughed. "What kind of a word is that?"
A smile grew on her face, and she laughed quietly too.
"Come on, I'll show you the constellations." Speaking, I led her up into the attic and pulled the long black curtain back from the large window.
Ejecting my discomfort with the memories, I reassembled the pieces of our large astronomical telescope. It was black and silver, the words 'Sky-Watcher' written on its side. I braced it near the window, and set up the scopes, showing Leilani where to look.
She grinned as I named the constellations and showed her all the best places in the town. Including the best pizzeria, but of course, I'll probably use it more that she ever will.
ESTÁS LEYENDO
written in scars || father lrh (au)
FanfictionLuke Hemmings - a 26 year old with a tainted past - has lived a tough life, and for the most part, he's been alone. He's been betrayed and left to the sea so many times, that, heartbroken and grief-striken, he's given up on his emotions and has sinc...
