They both settled down at the crack of dawn, just as they had been each day leading up to now. Their eyes looked over the precipice in silence. So many memories were made in this one place alone. Fingers wrapping around her own as he spoke of this spot he discovered wandering through paradise. Time stretched and her mind was full of complaints, but the thought of turning away never crossed her min...
The teacher left the room for _one_ second. Now there was a boy jumping and hollering while doing parkour on all of the desks. Now there were other people cheering him on. She would know, she watched it all from the corner, where she thought she would be safe from it all. Until the boy leaped to her desk like somebody leaping between buildings, suddenly taking he...
She never expected to return to her parents’ home, but she realized by now that the universe had been going out of its way to crush every lingering hope from her childhood she ever dared to have.
She once dreamed of going places when she was younger. She once dreamed of finding an apartment in the city and become one of the largest stars the world has ever seen.