Lionel’s lips devouring mine in the last kiss we shared welded itself to my mind as I absentmindedly approached the train in a robotic style. My destination was still unknown because I was following Matthew’s directions.

My surroundings were a blur but I could feel the train speed away, sending me to the miserable life I was bound to end up in. It’s like fate had made its decision because no matter what I did, there was no out for me. I certainly couldn’t pull the trigger of the gun tucked in my back. I didn’t have it in me to kill anything that had life, more so a human...