Christmas Time In The City

Memories

She remembers it all exactly how it happened.

The streetlights lit, the crunching of the snow beneath their feet as they danced to the cool winter wind.

The glow of the beautiful Christmas tree illuminating their first Christmas together.

The happy Christmas Day that they spent together, laughing and smiling.

The fallout on Boxing Day, why, oh why would he leave like that?

But she sits alone this Christmas Eve, the coffee almost as bitter as her, watching his favourite Christmas movie in hopes that maybe, just maybe, he'd show up at her door.

-M