Incoming heat

Mirabelle

I whirled around and Penny immediately engulfed me in a tight embrace.

"Are you alright?" She asked as she pulled away surveying my appearance.

I was still feeling shaken by what just happened. As the cold wind hit my skin it almost felt as if it had all been a dream, Roman had been here, and I'd felt warm and secure in his presence, and then there was that other feeling...

"Mira?"

I broke out of my thoughts as I heard Penny's worried tone.

"I'm alright."

"You don't look alright, would you like to go somewhere to chill?"

I nodded feeling suffocated, in a single night I'd thought would change my life for the better, my hopes had been dashed right before my eyes.

Penny led me away from the garden, from the corner of my eye I glimpsed the celebration hall, I could hear the sounds of celebration as youths got paired with their mates.

"Penny, where are you going?" Eliot rushed out of the celebration, there was excitement in his eyes as he regarded Penny with a prideful and p