Celebration
Her eighteenth birthday.
They threw a party for her, and everyone but the one she wanted was there.
She smiled at the guests, but anyone could tell that her smile was fake.
She took the drinks offered to her, but they knew she was drinking to forget.
The party went on for five hours, and he didn't come.
She ended up alone, and she wondered if this was what her life would be like.
Always waiting, always hoping.
For something that would never happen.
She cried herself to sleep that night.
