Confession

Mark was the kind of man her father always warned her about, she knew that deep down, the day she met him it was the height of summer, his dark hair cropped short, gray eyes that in the right light almost seemed green, toothy smile always ready, affable and a little crazy, always pushing Anika to try new things, for their first week together, she hadn't even had to worry about her responsibilities, her father, the tattoos on his body they told a story, he was full of scars, she knew most of them, but there was always a part of himself that he never fully revealed.

After a month, she had confronted her father, who had finally found her and discovered that she had a relationship with the man, he had not been happy about it, he had called her horrible names, and Anika had blindly believed in the man, had run away from her father in search of Mark, he had comforted her, taken her to Vienna, gotten a small apartment for both of them, and then left her alone for months, calling at odd hours