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Come on Erin, don’t be an idiot.

Maybe he’s already got his eye on someone for

tonight.

And yet, he looked at me. He lifted his splendid

black eyes and I got lost, surrounded by the

devastating warmth they emit.

I break the short contact by turning away and

squeezing my eyes tightly shut. Rain comes

towards me to ask if everything is all right, and I

give her a quick nod to reassure her, but I know

she’s not buying it.

I get out of there as fast as I can, going straight

towards the back. I open the door that leads to my

temporary apartment and run up as the last notes of

the songs keeps time with my tears. I throw myself

on my bed, hiding my head in my pillow, trying to

suffocate my sobs.

My life is already complicated enough as it is, I

don’t need to add any fuel to the fire.

And yet … and yet, he looked atme,not the

others. For once, I felt like I was the center of his

world and the very idea completely terrified me,

because I know him, I know who he is and how he

reacts.

And even if I know that in reality he’s just a

man with a broken heart, I know I’m not the one

for him, just as I know he’s not at all what I need.

Not now, not in the future.

Patrick

As the night ends, it would appear that the brunette