eventually the man rises from his seat, muscles weak and numb from his devotion. he looks upon the juniper tree once more, heart obviously heavy.
"i loved you too," he admits weakly.
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A rib cage lay in my fragile body, protecting nothing but a wilted rose and a shrivelled stem, there was no heart left to beat, no air left to breathe, nothing but the corpse of Piper's flower laying dead and alone inside of me.