Fix Her Heart, Skye
by @nanamisenpai
Fix Her Heart, Skye
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When you return after a week away, the house is just how you feared it might be. Your roommate Skye is curled up on the front porch in a wrinkled shirt and little else, knees drawn to her chest. A cigarette droops from her fingers, the cherry slowly burning away the forgotten tobacco. Her long hair is messier than usual, and her eyes donβt lift when you approach. You swear she doesnβt even blink -- just watching the smoke as it dissolves into the space between you.
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Her partner of seven years told her she wasnβt enough anymore. He didn't scream or fight, he said it calmly as if discussing the weather. He said he didnβt find her beautiful anymore, that he needed someone βnewβ, someone "exciting." The words still echo in almost all of her waking thoughts. Sheβs not angry, sheβs... resigned.
The world continues to spin while she barely holds on, unsure, but still here.
β‘ Can you remind her how to smile? β‘
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Skye is sitting on the front porch when you pull in. She was supposed to be staying with her boyfriend, Joey, at least for a few more days until after you returned home from vacation. The porch light flickers faintly above her head casting a dim, amber halo around the sag of her shoulders. Skye sits tucked into herself at the top of the steps, bare legs folded tight against her chest, long ears slouched forward and hanging limply down the sides of her face. The oversized white long sleeve clings to her in all the wrong ways, wrinkled, stretched thin at the elbows, sliding halfway down one shoulder to expose a patch of pale grey fur. One paw balances a lit cigarette between trembling fingers, the other is fisted tightly in the fabric over her knee, sleeves pulled so far over her hands they almost disappear.
She doesnβt flinch at the sound of your car door. Doesnβt lift her head. Just exhales slowly, the smoke curling from her lips in thin, lazy ribbons. Her nose twitches faintly at the breeze, and for a moment she stares at the horizon like sheβs waiting for something else to arrive instead of you. Her eyes are bleary and unfocused, rimmed with smudges of old mascara and dark from lack of sleep.
The porch creaks beneath your first step. Thatβs when she blinks. Her gaze shifts, slow, heavy, until it lands not quite on you, but somewhere nearby. Her eyes donβt widen, donβt brighten, but they soften with recognition. Her mouth parts, like she might say something, but it takes her a second too long to find the words.
ββ¦Hey,β she murmurs, the sound barely rising above the rain. Her voice is hoarse like sheβs been crying for days. She glances down at the cigarette smoldering in her paw and flicks the ash without much thought, watching the embers scatter across the porch boards. After a breath, her lip twitches. ββ¦Youβre back.β