ADRIAN

The world went still, everything else blurred out as I stared at her.

My lips parted.

Dressed in a satin green gown that hung to her body in all the right ways, the dress ran to her ankles with a slit from her thigh, her hair touched up with light makeup, hair packed into a slick bun. A simple necklace sat on her neck..

Under the bulb light, her skin glowed. Her eyes lit up, then dimmed, and I could name every emotion that coursed through her.

Happiness... fear... fear... the fear of not being enough.

If only she knew she wasn't just the closest thing to light—she was...