"He too likes Bella. What do you say Peter?" There was another soul in the hospital corridor who got deeply hurt and broken by Susan's casual chat.
Lilly has never stopped following Mark. Even though she never appeared before him after that last time they had a fight. She knew Mark did not care, he might even have forgotten her, but she was wandering aimlessly around him…
Love can be cruel this way. It was first time in her life that she felt her heart beat a little faster from her usual monotonous scheduled rate… and that was when she was around him… and she was thankful to him for that. Even if she can never have him, she was contented that at least for that brief moment in her life, she felt she had a separate life…a separate soul that her mother had tied so strongly with her body from which she struggled to escape.
Today Susan's words have pricked her wounded heart… but she knew that sooner or later it would have happened…