Isn't everyone hiding something?

No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.

That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep." Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.