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Paloma~

The faint knock on the apartment door had me tingling with something I didn't dare admit to myself. It seemed kind of ridiculous for me to pace about amd yet it was the only thing keeping me sane.

My hopes were dashed once again, twice it should have been him and twice it wasn't.

I send the pizza guy away with a rather meagre tip even though it was clearly not his fault that Orion was a no-show.

Hours seemed to pass by perceptively but the clock said he was only minutes late. Each moment sort of taunted me and under the lush and beautiful girl in the black lush dress, a sliver of my old self stared back in astonishment.

The long wait finally won over any sort of niceties and excitement I'd dreamed up, it'd been foolish of me to believe that he'd-

The sound of a light faint knock had whatever thought that I had wrenched out of me, my feet quickened as I opened the door.

There he was, rocking off the casual look with faint illumination of the moon echoing away in his eyes, eyes