"What are you doing?" the question hung in the air. Heavy and thick like fresh fallen rain.
"What do you think?" the answer came from a turned back. Strong and ungiving like a stone wall that stood for centuries. He was there and she was here, just a few feet away. When did the distance get so big? When did things get so awkward between them? They used to be so close but now? Now he felt worlds away and she didn't like it one bit.
She continued to stare at his back silently. Afraid to open her mouth lest she say something wrong yet again and ruin the moment, this simple barely there moment that she had fought and fought so hard to finally achieve. Shattered glass and broken faith and lies spoken through teeth that smelled of honesty, or had she just been that desperate? That's what everything had been resolved to in the mere moments that the door had been open and the door could never be closed again and she knew it. Not without help. But she couldn't ask for help, the last time she had been in tears and hadn't been thinking straight and who knew just what kind of consequences would show up later on down the line. Neither party was innocent in this, but she seemed to be the only one to walk away scathed. The only one who seemed to remember the good times, not just the bad. The only one who even bothered to look back on the memories and wish they could go back in time. But she was grasping blindly at straws now. Hoping that whatever one she managed to grab was the right length to be the bridge between them, or even to start it. She opened her mouth and nothing came out but more silence as loud as shattering glass and she closed her mouth to try once more and this time something did come out. Laughter. Cold, hopeless laughter that spoke nothing of the late nights and music blaring and memories of shoulder bumps and always having each other's back. She laughed a laugh that spoke of being broken, and of giving up and being lost. She laughed and she walked away from him knowing he wouldn't bother to watch her leave.
She didn't bother to look back.