Chapter 30: Loneliness

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Rose I thought I knew what it was to be lonely.  Before Matthias, ALONE was the only existence I knew.  Get close to no one, trust no one, keep to myself.  It wasn’t exactly a happy life, but it was all I knew, and I had nothing to compare it to… so I didn’t really know what I was missing.  I only had the vaguest idea that there was something else out there from books and movies… and everyone knows that they aren’t really REAL.  But now I had tasted love, tasted friendship, tasted companionship and intimacy.  Now I knew what I was missing, and it hurt.  I hurt, like I had never hurt before. The people in White Horse were very kind and friendly, but I kept everyone at a distance.  I wasn’t going to risk making friends with any one, not now.  Whatever moron said “It is better to have love

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