EARLIER,

Back when they knew about what happened.

Zariah was with De Villiers and Amanda, telling them about the minimum, barely enough memories she made with Nathaniel.

The barest moments that kept her going and believe that one day- things would be better.

Smiling to herself, she hugged the pillow and told about an old, juvenile tale where she was seventeen and started to feel conscious about herself.

“He was changing me, since the beginning, he was my only emotion so one day I was in the garden…”

She was sitting in the gazebo, lost in herself worrying while Nathaniel was struggling to cut the thorns of a rose before...