#liesinalullaby

"Seeing his smile killed her. Every time, it only served as a reminder that he didn’t love her. Her heart broke anew."

The freckles on her back were constellations, stars that wrote out their destiny. She counted each one like a prayer.

"She'd always been charming, but the kindness of his soul struck her dumb. Her words became glue in her mouth, and only awful pick up lines emerged."

"She'd always been charming, but the kindness of his soul struck her dumb. Her words became glue in her mouth, and only awful pick up lines emerged."

"Infatuated (verb, past tense) - to inspire with an unreasonable passion. He had never been a wordsmith before, but the flecks in her eyes sang to him.”

"She was a force of nature, green dress swirling around her. Her eyes were like lightning when they landed on him.

'Dance with me?'

He was struck."

"The strength of her emotions set the tree ablaze, red burning the green away. Whether it was love or anger was anyone’s guess."

"In the hush of the gathering of the trees, they contemplated the future. Hands entwined, the stars above them sparked and fell in pairs."