#1
She had been the other woman. She was never really anything to Edmund and although, Goodwin might have felt something for her, they were just a tryst and nothing more. Jack always had Kate in mind and she served, perhaps, as a pleasant distraction.
She was always the other woman, in fact. Being someone's number one wasn't a feeling she knew. Isn't she corrects herself. It isn't a feeling she knows. Sure, warm thoughts occasionally found their way into her mind through the tiny cracks that exposed themselves when she was with him, touching him, breathing him, but when she'd come down from her elation she always made sure to chase them away.
There was no room for such wishful thoughts yet she couldn't help the persistent hunger for those moments. She'd feed the hunger, let the cracks come undone, and drown herself in the bliss through each brush of their skin against each other, each kiss they shared together. She was often desperate though she hid it well under a mask of indifference and for a long while it was enough to keep the nasty thoughts at bay until it just wasn't. The hunger grew greedy and somewhere deep inside she knew it would never be satisfied. What was there within her reach, what she felt with her fingertips, as beautiful as it is, was not enough. She would never be enough.
Though she didn't know it at the time, the thought ate away at her slowly, aggressively until it unhinged her. The single stem of yellow flower that she had received from him was both delightfully and depressingly an appropriate representation of what she shared with him. Flowers were demanding. They take time and effort and care but with persistence, they bloom into something exquisite indeed. That allure, however, doesn't last. In time they would bend and wilt and decay until they once again became part of the ground.
They too died.
AN:I've finished writing a few shorts and am working on multiple at the same time. This is the shortest one I've written, the others will be longer I promise! I'll be uploading them gradually as I continue writing. I hope you enjoy reading them! Please leave a review if you enjoyed it, please also leave a review if you didn't and perhaps elaborate why :D