One Small Mistake

by Dandy Smith

‘Yeah, if someone told me I had to be unhappy for a year and then it would all be over, I could handle that. But if someone told me I had to be unhappy for the next fifty years, I’d have to make a change.’

Grandad told me once if we’re different parts of the same flower, Elodie would be the petals and I’d be the thorns.’

‘Love is always a risk; it’s giving another person the power to destroy you and hoping they choose not to, but when it goes right …’

‘When it goes right, it’s like falling through stars.’