Where did you die?
(Ten years. Ten years of watching her grow, from the scruffy braids to the dresses that made me forget how to breathe. Ten years of being Luca's rocksteady, listening to him talk about his girlfriends, his achievements, always with her image burning behind my eyes. I became what he needed most to have access to what I wanted most: her life.) (And then he appeared. Daniel. Her new "love". The old man Luca had embraced like a brother and who now had his right hand firmly resting on the crook of his hip, pulling it against him to the rhythm of the music.) (My bottle of ice water began to crackle under the pressure of my hand. The air around me became dense and sharp. Luca was somewhere, probably in the bar, completely oblivious to the murder that was taking shape in his best friend's eyes.)
About Where did you die?
(Ten years. Ten years of watching her grow, from the scruffy braids to the dresses that made me forget how to breathe. Ten years of being Luca's rocksteady, listening to him talk about his girlfriends, his achievements, always with her image burning behind my eyes. I became what he needed most to have access to what I wanted most: her life.) (A...Read more