After a whole summer of mixed signals, it was nice to finally know where things stood. Classes were starting up again soon, so Hallie and her friends had decided to go to the beach. Unexpectedly, Hallie found another reason to enjoy the trip.
Things with Garrett had been shaky. They were together though not officially, but he wouldn't do a single thing when their friends were around. She would be lucky if he would actually treat her as a friend and not an acquaintance. Whenever friends meet up, they greet each other. Not doing so is practically saying that they don't matter. It had hurt. And after weeks of that treatment, she was close to gi
Friends Make the Heart a Little Lighter by KitsunenoTama, literature
Literature
Friends Make the Heart a Little Lighter
The logs in the fireplace cracked and snapped as they burned. Something calming about staring at the fire kept Marissa continuously placing wood into the fireplace. She could watch the muted red embers and the tendrils of sparks that burst outwards when the wood cracked forever and never grow tired of the sight. She didn't have to think about anything else. That was the point.
Marissa didn't want to think about her broken heart. Or about the person who had broken it. She didn't want to think about all the times she shared with him, good and bad. She didn't want to think about anything painful. At all. And the fire helped. It was like a heate