I stood at the edge of the clearing, watching Aimee's figure as she leaned against a tree, her arms crossed over her chest. The way the moonlight caught her hair, casting a soft glow around her, made my chest tighten. She'd always had that effect on me, like she was the only light in the darkness that had surrounded me for so long.
But now… everything had changed. Everything was different since I came back.
I took a deep breath, gathering my thoughts, trying to figure out how to explain what had happened while I was away. How do you tell someone that the world they thought they knew had been turned upside down? How do you tell them that you've been through hell and somehow managed to come back, but you're not the same person they remember?
