I love you.

Time stood still.

Nothing was important anymore and yet every detail seemed to have meaning.

He had said it.

A wave crashed over me, sweeping away the ice that had frozen us.

He had said it and now there was nothing left to stop the fall. It won't change anything. Just more pain.

I had to go now.

Now or never.

His eyes focused on my every move. persecuted me.

I pushed myself away from the window and ran past him.

I had to get out of here. From this house, from him, from my family.

For they would be my ruin.

I ran faster than I...