The Frozen Heart
The day I would not sit alone over a reheated dinner in my tiny apartment, watching television while all my friends traveled home to their families.
But fate intervened. One turn, one patch of ice, and now I was here. Trapped by snow and by the secrets of strangers, in a house where no one knew who I was and no one cared that I had just crossed into a new decade of my life. Apparently, I truly did not deserve to matter to anyone on this day.
My tears did not fall. They just pulsed in my throat like a suffocating knot. The cynicism that had always been my shield failed me now. All that remained was a tired, lonely girl, waiting in fear for tomorrow.
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