Forever & Always

"Was any of it real?"

The question slipped out and the room went quiet, everything slowed down around me or maybe it was my heart that had slowed down, maybe it was the hurt that had blurred everyone else or perhaps it were just my eyes that never learned to look anywhere else with her in the room.

Nissa-or whatever was left of her behind-stopped too, just to turn and look at me with the same boring expressions she had when she saw all of the others.

"No," She answered, voice bare of any emotion. An ache lodged itself in my chest but I still waited, I knew her-I trusted her.

So I waited for her expressions to change, for them to soften, for her to say that this was a joke, because I wasn't just anybody-I was hers, I was always hers, I was her Mir, how could she not.

But somewhere between holding her gaze, the brown burning through brown or the ice against fire I realised that they wouldn't, with that empty gaze and blank face that she looked at me with, they wouldn't- and as she tore my heart into pieces, they didn't.

"It was all an illusion." The burn spread through.

But it still wasn't over.
No it wasn't.

It couldn't be. I won't let it be.

What we had was forever.
It was supposed to always and forever.

Always & forever.