Veritas
Silence. Unbearable. Thick. Tense. It was a wall between them that neither would break down. He stood in the doorway. She sat on the rug. Their eyes connected. The air alive with electricity. An unspoken conversation hammered their ears. The volume of the silent words wouldn't desist. The confrontation was long over due, and yet they avoided it. They always avoided it. They cloaked the truth with sharp words and false non-chalance. They danced that familiar beat that they had rehearsed to perfection. Always a conversation that fell far too short of real meaning. And then there were the glances. Lingering. Promising. Pained. Silently screaming the words that they knew would never come. The silence between them grew and grew and somewhere along the way the truth got lost inside it.