TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
Breaking and piercing, fracturing.
She tried to stop it, tried to halt it, tried to hold it back, hold it up. Tried frantically, desperately, to shore it up again. But it was crumbling, crumbling, and breaking, and she couldn’t stop it. She couldn’t, she just couldn’t…
And then it came. Like a huge, unstoppable wave. Crushing down the wall, sweeping it aside, pouring past, taking her over, overwhelming her, overpowering her…
In a last, final act of desperation, Cheryl shut her eyes. Screwed them shut, covered them with her hands to keep it out… out… But it was there. Vivid, somehow imprinted in her brain. And she couldn’t stop it, she couldn’t stop it…