Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.