Sam scarcely paused for breath as she ran, but she never felt she was getting anywhere. Maybe its because she wasn't runner to her house, she was running from Marrin; or at least, what she'd said. She tried catching her breath, and her vision focused. She realized where she was and gasped.
Her instincts must've sent her running down Danny's street since something was wrong. Shaking her head, she convinced herself to stop thinking about him. No. They weren't a couple and hey never would be.
But no matter how hard she tried to deny her love, it wouldn't fade.
Hoping she wouldn't be noticed, she darted down behind a random house and tried to cut through towards her own block.
Marrin sat on her bench and let Evanesence gush loudly through her iPod. She didn't know why she felt so weird inside. It was a new feeling; a tingly feeling. And it just wouldn't go away. Normally her stomach was in a knot from guilt of her life, but now she actually felt different for the very first time in her life.
She didn't feel a variation of emotions; sadness, anger, guilt, and embarresment where the only ones she knew well. She'd never felt happiness. She'd never been accepted. And she'd never really known her family the way she would've liked to. Sometimes, in a state of semi-conscious sleep, she still felt the distance they had had at times. She wished she'd known her moms eyes by heart, wish she'd have memorized them, taken time to just watch them like the amethyst stones they where.
But somehow, for once, the broken pieces of her childhood before age of your choice didn't matter. And everything was immortalized; the ground was still breaking below her, and her life was still shattered before her; but this state of tranquil acceptance made the cornors of the girls mouth turn upwards.
Was Marrin smiling?
She stopped herself quickly. Her mouth went to it's usual set frown. She shook her head slightly.
She let out a sigh, and turned up to stare at the moon. It had always been beautiful to her. Like a waiting goddess, it would watch from its sanctuary and steal time in the darkness to listen; to change.
And just like that, Marrin had fallen in love.