To those who died so that I could live. For those that fought so that I could live in peace. To those that were oppressed, so that I could live in a world that was not oppressive, this is for them.

God bless.

Date: 11th November

Character: Bella

Stimulus Word: Remembrance

The minute's silence today had been painful.

While others thought about people they had never known, places they had never seen, battles that they had never fought, she thought about one who had died before he had really had the chance to fight, though he had wanted to.

For one minute out of the 82,074 since he had left her, she allowed herself to think—to really think—about him.

It was brutal. It was beautiful. It was painful beyond belief.

And it was far, far too short.

UPDATE: The original number of minutes was 4852800. But I realised that that was actually the number of -seconds- since he left her, not minutes. This is why I am going to fail my maths exam, in just over one week's time.

Sorry.