We're Just Friends

Prologue

Gray puffs feathered and pushed in a dark wall across the stormy sky. A crack of thunder that seemed to echo, boomed past her ears. If she had known, she would have stayed back home instead of the surprise visit. The scent of earthy soil seeped through Becky's nose as she trudged along the quiet crosswalk with trembling limbs and shuffling footsteps as she made her way home. The cool breeze blew her brown hair across her eyes, and she tucked them back. Distance voices chattered as the howling sound of cold air shushed. Her skin stung with cold, her pants cuffs fluttering against her ankles, and her flared blouse flapping and ruffling against her body. There was tightness in her chest and limbs, and as she dragged her feet down the road in hunched shoulders and bent back, a dull aching pain crept through her throat. She was trying hard not to cry. She forced her eyes to a squint to keep them from drying out, then the tears began. Her vision blurred and the world around her began to s