Written for Usagi and Mamoru: A Love Like No Other. Link on my bio page.

47. Broken glass (83 words)

Serena was like glass. She could be pretty; beautiful even at times, but it was a fragile beauty. Other times she could be jagged and sharp and painful.

Right now she was fractured. He could see the thin, hair-line cracks in her slumped position and the idle stirring of her drink with a straw. Her friends were attempting to mend the fractures and would no doubt succeed as they usually did.

He hated to think of what might happen if she completely broke.