Chapter One

Without

When the stars peek out

It never ends.

Character Sketch:

Feeling like a burden (both sides of coin)

She feels like a burden, he feels like he has too much of a burden on his shoulders

“What do you mean?” She stopped. Her chest tightened as emotion began to cloud her throat.

“Janie, that’s not what I meant…” His rush to reassure her fell into the echo of loneliness that she thought had finally been filled within her heart.

Instead, a crushing stone, cold and unfeeling, dropped into her heart where she had sought to create a home for love to live.

But no- love didn’t belong in a place that was so empty. Love couldn’t exist in this wasteland.

She was a burden. She was something that people were strapped with. Why couldn’t she accept this?

Why was she so delusional that anyone would want her?

When would she learn?