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SIX YEARS LATER

Author: MAKI KAYE
last update Last Updated: 2024-12-31 19:18:12
GALLAHAN’S POV

Willa looked the same, and yet she didn’t.

Her eyes stared blankly at me, and somehow, despite my fading memory of her, I knew I got the wrong shade of green.

The woman I painted looked just like her, and yet I was certain it wasn’t her. She wasn’t the Willa I had met all those years ago.

Or was she?

I couldn’t be too sure anymore. My memory of Willa was slowly slipping into the farthest, darkest and unreachable crevice of my mind. And much to my growing frustration, it was getting worse with every day that flowed by.

It started more or less five years ago, and I had simply brushed it off. But if I had known it would get this bad, I would’ve asked Zuleika or Maliya to preserve each and every frame of my memory of Willa. From the moment I first laid eyes on her in the Ferndell Forest, and up until the last moment I had with her on my bed before she ran away.

Now, I couldn’t even remember the right shade of green in her eyes. Was it pale? Was it deep and luscious?
MAKI KAYE

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! SIX YEARS ALREADY PASSED FOR WILLA AND GALLAHAN. WHERE DO YOU THINK WILLA IS?

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