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Coda
Date: 10/12/2015, Categories: Love Stories, Author: Varrick, Rating: 8, Source: LushStories
didn’t really want to know, Michel would lie awake contemplating what Lucy was doing. Names of friends had been dropped during their conversations. Some were male, and he wondered who these people were, what they meant to her, and about the details she was leaving out. Blackness reigned and, when he thought of her, the skies were no longer blue. Instead they were befouled with jealously, and scorched by ire and loneliness. Michael sensed she no longer needed him, not like she had, and the pain cut like a razor. All the while he pined for her but, when the invitation to visit finally arrived, his mind was a jumble of conflicting emotions. He had wanted to leave that very second so that come the dawn, she could be in his arms. But he was frightened, terrified, that his fears would be confirmed. -------------------- The campus was submerged beneath a layer of snow. An hour from reaching Lucy, an unseasonable flurry had dropped from the skies and chilled Michael to the bone. But when he pulled to a stop she was there, waiting in the parking lot. Deep inside he felt the embers smoulder and, for that moment, all enmity lay cooled and dormant. Lucy walked him inside, but their footsteps were punctuated with awkward conversation. Although they had known one another since childhood, during their year apart they had become very different people. Michael saw that Lucy had changed her hair and, although he had spoken to her over the Internet, this was the first time that he really ...