Submissions by mootrool

She's eighteen years old when she falls in love for the first time.
He's a boy with ambitions and promises.
He's a boy that has the ability to make her feel alive.
His ambition is her ambition.
To leave behind the dreary streets of their hometown.
To move onto the sunny skies of someplace new.
He promises to give her the world.
She believes him.

Years later, when the boy with ambition has moved on and separated himself from her life, she's still a long ways from home.
She still resides in the place that contained every possibility she dreamed...

For the past week, she's dreamed in red.
Little splotches of the color that grow more vibrant as days pass.
In these dreams, she sees herself. She sees locations and surroundings that she recognizes, if only vaguely.
In these dreams, she also sees him.
She relives memories shared with him, the images gray and dull except for the faint little color of red.
She relives the lonely nights spent on her couch in front of the television, which would've been lonely had he not been there, and her nails are painted crimson.
She relives those days spent on the road, he's in...