Theaquilaaward2018 storie

"Give me two months. Just two and I'll shatter that shell of yours." Ever since the Si Woo met Nokia, two years ago. She'd always been a bit withdrawn from the relationship. Kissing wasn't something they did often and she didn't smile that much either. It was almost like she was hiding herself from him. Having endured this for so long, Si Woo finally gets sick of it all and vows to break her out of her hardened shell in exchange for her hand in marriage. This is the story of whether he suceeds or not.

I had been content to pretend sleep as Da carried me, but when we got back to the cottage, I was eager to show Mam the shiny pebble a boy had given me after one of the dances. I ran back and forth from the door to the window as I waited. Da laughed at me. "I suppose you could have just carried me home." "There she is!" I squealed suddenly, making him jump. "Wait, Love, she'll listen to you by the fire," he said, but I was already out the door. "Mam!" "Selene run!" Mam screamed as a great dark shadow leapt from the cover of a shadow and lunged for me. Black eyes were all I saw; black as the bottom of a well without whites or irises. An instant later my life was shattered like glass and I was never able to put it back together, but I didn't know that something was keeping the pieces apart on purpose.