Short Stories

Chapter #1

PROMPT: "YOU LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING IS BLACK AND WHITE UNTIL YOU MEET YOUR SOULMATE. WHEN YOUR SOULMATE DIES, THE WORLD GOES BACK TO BLACK AND WHITE. YOU FOUND YOUR SOULMATE YEARS AGO TODAY YOU ARE HAVING A NORMAL DAY AT WORK. SUDDENLY EVERYTHING GOES BLACK AND WHITE."
          I still remember the exact moment I met Erik, even though it was years ago. I was a waitress at a local family-owned restaurant, I noticed him right away. He looked so elegant and handsome in his custom suit. He was traveling for work and had stopped in for breakfast before his flight. Once I saw him, I fainted.
          That was definitely not how I expected things to happen. When my mom told me about when she first laid eyes on dad, she explained the colors coming in like sparks on a crackling candle. After I woke up, my vision was in complete color with Erik on his knees standing over me while fanning me with some papers from his briefcase. I looked up at him and when our eyes met I knew he could see them too.
          It's now almost ten years later. Erik got a work from home job and I have gone from a waitress to owning my own restaurant. A month ago at work I fainted for the first time since I met Erik. I was in my office with the door closed so no one noticed. I woke up alone and scared with no color and my first instinct was to call Erik, no response. I immediately drove home.
          I was so scared, I expected to see him face-down on his desk once I got home. Instead I open the bedroom door and I see a young girl I didn't recognize, probably in her twenties, sitting in his lap naked and sucking on his neck. I didn't know what to do, I wanted to scream and yell, but my voice was caught in my throat. They noticed me and I finally had the strength to say "Get out" and they did.
          I've talked to him since then and he had the audacity to yell at me. He told me it was my fault, he said that if I hadn't been away at work so much it wouldn't have happened. I realized that day that the person you love doesn't need to die for you to lose your colored vision, their love for you just has to die...