faith | ✓

ix

There are forces in life you can't stop.

And then there are some which you can, but you never see them coming.

Like you overdosing on your medicines.

Suddenly, from everything, there was nothing.

Everything was the same, though. Except you weren't there anymore. And without you, that everything meant nothing.

You thought you were in the way of my career. That you were somehow holding me back from actually living. You couldn't be more wrong.

But I didn't get a chance to explain that to you, did I?

Everything was over and done for, and I was left behind alone to pick up the lost, broken pieces you left. Pieces of the world—our world, and the pieces of me.
You were gone.

And so was the only year left for us to spend together.

You decided for the both of us.

I was only left with your letter in my hand, with the world at a halt around me.

I did what you wanted me to do, judging by your decision. I took the job.

And left the country.

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