Gemotions

The realization hit her like a physical blow. The house on Cherry Court. Listed for sale. She felt a profound and unsettling sense of displacement. She knew she should be over it, but she wasn't.

She walked to the window, the city lights blurring through her tears. She had moved on, she had built a life, but the past held a different kind of power.

She'd ignored her feelings for years, tried to bury them, but they were there now. Swirling around her, a relentless tide. She felt the weight of choices unmade, words unsaid. She closed her eyes, the image of the cherry tree in the front yard vivid in her mind.