Puppeteer

Isabella’s POV

I leaned forward against the marbled barricade of my balcony while looking straight into the distant sky and pondering. The wind whooshed through the space between my body and the dress causing it to lightly flutter and my nipples to shiver. How long had it been since then? A week or two? Maybe even a month? It was, however, the first time Lucas ever put his hands on me. I know I caused quite the disturbance and I know I constantly make him lose his temper, but on every other occasion, he would just storm out angrily or just scream but what happened this time was too great a shock for me to handle. We’ve known each other for over twenty years now, we’ve been together from grade school till this moment and I was sure we’d be together throughout our lives but then, How?

I gently caressed the right side of my cheek and before I even realized it, the tip of my fingers was wet from the silent tears that gracefully rolled down my eyes. The physical pain was gone after about