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The Sticking Point

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What do you do when love walks away?
When it feels like all the magic in your life is slipping through your fingers?
He watched her leave, words so heavy on his tongue he couldn't speak. So he stood in silence. Nothing but the song of crickets in the night. Is this the sound of a heart breaking?
He remembered his father's words. "A woman isn't gone until she walks away without looking back." If she looks back...there's still a chance...
A slim chance, a small hope. Hope is a terrible thing. It made his breath stop as he watched her walk away. One step, two.
The sticking point, it's called. That thing which holds you in place, the part of you that wants to stay when the rest of you is trying to break free. The falter in your steps when you try to walk away, that last look back that frames a longing words could never master. It is the heart's pull, the soul's subtle tug, that draws you back to the one thing you want the most.
Even when it's the last thing you need.
He needed her.
He needed her to look back. Just once. Just one small hesitation, so that he might know that everything they shared meant something. Something worth pausing over. Something worth fighting for.
He held his breath, and watched.



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Iacapo's avatar
i love the night sky and the brightness of her shawl. i like that you ended the story in suspense. i also like entire concept of her looking back and the sticking point.