Gemotions

The phone slipped from Emily’s numb fingers, crashing to the floor. The shattering sound was a minor detail compared to the upheaval in her chest. Everything she had worked towards, everything she had dreamed of, was now crumbling. She sank to the floor, her back against the cold wall of her apartment. Her breath came in ragged gasps. The silence around her felt deafening, broken only by the frantic pounding of her own heart, a drumbeat of panic echoing through the empty rooms of her life.