She was heading to her school, on skates, as always. She would be late if she didn't hurry...

She didn't hurry.

She let the cool wind push her on her wheels, while she gazed at the ground, at the horizon... and then at the sky, which had never seemed to far away before...

***

She flushed. They did not only all glanced at her, but they stared, for the time she made her way to her desk. As they paid attention to every step that she made, she could hardly remember how it was the way that she was supposed to walk. She just felt like she could fall on her face at each of these long painful seconds.

In that case, would she have even minded to get back on her feet...?

With else than their eyes, they didn't say anything though. For they all knew...

And when she sat, the only voice that she heard, breaking the uneasiness, the hush... and her heart... it was not the one every one around was listening to at the moment.

It was rather from behind that it came, and not exactly startling her, while the teacher spoke just as a mute in front.

She turned around, and she faced it.

The emptiness.


He was gone.