Never the Way We Were
They were so consumed by it that neither of them even noticed when the fever burned my eyesight away.
I had thought, miserably, that a child nobody wanted could not even hold on to her own eyes. Therefore, when I saw Stellan lying in the snow, thrown away just like me, my heart cracked open for him on the spot.
The world did not need another discarded child who could not keep what mattered most.
Stellan took my hand, too spent to fight anymore. "Okay. I'm sorry. Don't say things you don't mean.
"What, am I supposed to just let you wander into traffic and get yourself killed?"