Chapter 11: When home is gone.

Depression was consuming her as fast as a wild fire consumes a polythene. Every day was the same to her. Jaden was gone. For six days now, he was gone.

She, too, was gone. She was no longer Jess. After her first transformation, she had to experienced any other one. Only that, she knew loneliness life a childhood friend. Sadness felt a little too ‘at home’ in her life.

Each day, she stared at her phone, waiting for a call from Jaden. She scrolled through her contact list numerous times a day looking for who to call, as if she was compulsive.

“This is what happens when you meet a man and call him your home.” She whispered.

“You can house more than a home,” She said. “But, you are an introvert. Since you found home, you never left.”

“What happens when home leaves you?”

She hadn’t had her shower for six days. She hadn’t brushed her teeth for six days! She hadn’t picked up the broken pieces of glass she shattered when she was not Jess.

She was walking dead. She was breathing, yet no