Tearing Paper

Chrysalis

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“There's this girl. She spends every day tearing paper, as if nothing she writes ever makes sense. And there's this guy. He spends every day watching her—but a few days ago, they finally started talking instead of exchanging glances with each other across my café. I think that girl is the one you’re looking for. And that guy must know where she is.”

Lucio grumbled as the café manager returns the photograph of Dianne to him. He should’ve known. Dianne had changed so much ever since she started going home late. He should’ve known she was seeing someone.

“Do you have any idea about this guy?” Lucio tried not to sound like an obsessive creep.

But what right had he to say that he wasn’t one?

He thought he could make Dianne his doll. He thought he could play her strings anytime he wished.

She hated him for that, he was sure.

But she didn’t know that he had fallen in love with her while destroying every single thing that made her trust him in the first place.

She was just so in love with this café.

She never minded to sit alone all evening, just like she did on their first meeting.

She was lost.

She was a stranger in this town, a timid little caterpillar—and he took her.

How could he let her go?

“Hold on,” the manager hollered a waiter that was wiping tables. “Tyler! You know that guy who’s always busy with his laptop here? You talked to him a lot, right?”

Tyler said something to the manager, and soon he returned to Lucio and said, “Yeah, well all we know is that the guy’s name is Nathan. Nate. I think he works as a journalist.”

That information passed by Lucio’s ears swiftly—that was not at all helpful. He thanked the workers before leaving Dianne’s favorite café and walked home.

Where was she?

He underestimated that girl. But maybe, just maybe—she had finally broken out of her chrysalis and spread her wings to escape him.