Eve~
I watched as the bird flew about. Something in me ached at the sight. Freedom... It was near yet so far. I looked down at the new phone that I had been given. The numbers that I should have had were already added. My mother's and my father's. Yet, despite having been married off for days now, there had not been a single message, not a single call from them.
I swallowed thickly, emotion clogging my throat. I knew by now that whatever love they had ever felt for me was dead, but still, I craved the voice of someone familiar. I craved it like oxygen.
I swallowed what little was left of my non-existent pride and clicked the call icon. My heart thundered in my chest as the beeping started. I counted each beep until the tenth.
"I am not available at the moment, leave a message after the beep."
