They say time heals everything. They lied. Five years. I counted every single day. I shouldn't have but I did. And then I walked through those doors and I saw him. My heart forgot how to beat right. My eyes burned. My hands went cold. Just like that I wasn't her anymore. The woman I had spent five years building was gone. I was the old me again. The one who waited. The one who cried. The one who never got a reason why. Daniel Holt. Same face. Same eyes. Same everything. He looked up and looked away like I was nobody. Like I had always been nobody. I stood there and smiled like a professional while everything inside me came apart quietly. The way it always does. The way nobody ever sees.
