I just want it all to stop. All the pain. All the anger. All this darkness. I want it to just go away. At least for a little while. So that I can fu.cking breathe again. I just want peace.
"Oh, great, it's you."
My eyes fluttered open, immediately connecting with a pair of sparkling jade-green ones. She appeared out of thin air, looking like an annoyed goddess. She changed her clothes. Switched out the flimsy tank-top she had on for a green sweater that made her eyes pop. Her hair was still down, hanging around her like a golden halo with streaks of pink. Her full lips were pulled down, but it didn't take from her beauty at all.
And it was right then, while I was absorbed in her beauty, that I realized my body had relaxed. My breathing evened out. My fingers uncurled. The darkness, the
