Stolen Dreams
Silently Carina Williams watches as couples come and go from the park, some coming with thier children others just to walk, others alone to walk their pets, she perches on the park bench feeling her legs ache from sitting there all day lost in her own thoughts, her own longings. Sighing softly she gazes out over the pond the moonlight reflecting back to the night as it desends around her. As the night grows darker so do her thoughts, wondering why with a world so full of people why she is so lonely. At 30 and the mother of three her time is spent mostly at work or with them when she has them, but her body longs for something something not normal to most, yet so at home within her soul. Sighing softly she stands, dragging her light jacket lightly around her she makes her way across the park not worried about the darkness that surrounds her and the crazy world in which she lives in.
Pulling out her car keys she slides behind the wheel of her car then rests her head on the steering wheel, tears of lonliness streak down her cheeks. With a loud sigh of frustration she swipes her fingers across her face then starts her car, the short drive to her apartment seeming like forever to her. Truddging up the three steps she walks down the breezeway to let herself into her apartment the silence stretching around her. Flipping lights she makes her way down her hallway where she sinks into her computer chair and looks at her computer wondering why she wastes her life away on it. Browsing her messengers she seeks him but again he is not there, with a longing in the ache of her belly she sets her away messages on then strips naked to crawl into her bed, arms wrapping around her as she silently cries into her pillows. In the darkest hours of the nights Carina slumbers deeper, sprawled on her side, her hand tucked beneath her cheek the image that has haunted her for so many years enters her dream, a soft voice whispers across her mind "soon pet, soon", then nothing she frowns sometimes remembering sometimes not. As the sunlight filters through her blinds she stretches

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