She had never imagined that things would come to this. The only thing she knew for sure was that what she had never been willing to forgive was not years of cruelty and exploitation, but the heart in her chest, now stained and battered. The promises made in their youth had become forbidden things they could no longer reach. The people who once went wild together had left behind only distant silhouettes. In the end, the shifting sands of time blurred every trace, leaving no chance to reminisce.
In this season of life, through a youth spent turning herself into a hedgehog, unable to enjoy an embrace ever again, everything had become unmistakably part of the past.
