Forget Me Not

by Karissa Kinword

“I’ve lost every friend, but you.” “I’m not your friend, Silas.” “No, you are my reason.”

“If it makes you feel any better, Birdie, your affliction is one I can sympathize with all too well right now.”

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

Then Silas’s addition in the empty space on the page: In fate I will find you.

“I don’t want him, Silas.” I slithered to his side, tracing my fingertips up his torso. “It’s always been you.”

“I’ve met you a thousand times then, Book Girl,” he says. “In a thousand stories.”

“Unfortunately beauty does tend to bring out the ugly in people.”

“I knew it,” I whisper. “You see me, too.” Silas squeezes my hand back and nods in haste. “Every single night when I go to sleep, Eliza.”