Based on Week 35 fanficflashfic prompts. Thanks for reading!
"It's just the beginning", I wrote on my palm, to convince myself it wasn't the end.
I packed the last box into my car as I cried. Leaving my family to follow my love, my life, my everything.
This will make him happy; this will make us whole. I'll show everyone how perfect our love is. It will be different when it's just the two of us.
He was pleased to finally have me all to himself. No one to hear my screams. No one to see my bruises.
The words on my palm are long gone. The needle is past E. Nothing is different. Everything is worse. My love is a lie. Turns out, it's just the end.