The Rejected Heiress
The ring that she gave him.
I could feel it, the stares, the whispers, the faltering remarks of the crowd around them.
It was grating, it was almost as if they were laughing at me.
They were waiting to see my joke. The joke that I had become.
BOOM!
The sound exploded before I realized my hand had moved. My glass shattered, the television collapsing into a mess of sparks and broken fragments.
My hand moved, the glass of whiskey shattering on impact with the wall. The television collapsed into a mess of sparks and electrical fragments.