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AURORAHe is color blind!The thought that he had asked the color of my eyes when he could clearly see it had bugged me and so immediately I walked in, I reached for my phone and googled Antonio Valera.“How…” I whispered to myself.I was staring at his work… every piece of it looked so alive and even without them being in color, I could feel them… like they bled through the screen and wrapped around my throat.The depth of his works were mind blowing and I should have known that he was not color blind.“Are you going to keep stalking our professor all night or should I be concerned?”I jolted at the sound of Clarissa’s voice, my phone nearly slipping from my grasp.“You are back,” she said, dropping a bag onto her bed as she eyed me suspiciously. “What took you so long?”“I was drawing the apple,” I muttered, locking my phone, though my mind was still trapped inside his gallery.Clarissa raised a brow. “For that long?”“Did you know he is color blind?”Clarissa was staring at me like

AURORA“I’m fine.”I said it out loud to no one as I shut the front door behind me, the click echoing through the quiet house. I threw my keys and they landed in the bowl by the door with a hollow clatter, and I stood there for a while, my hand still on the knob.The lights were off, as Clarissa wasn’t home yet. That was good actually because I was not exactly in the right frame of mind for a talk right now. The conversation I had with Antonio was enough conversation to keep me for a whole week if necessary.I slipped off my shoes and padded farther inside the house, just wanting to rest my eyes and forget every single thing that had happened so far. The house had always been my safe space, but right now, with how tight my chest felt, it didn’t feel so safe anymore.“I’m not sick anymore,” I murmured as I dropped my bag onto the couch.It was still a reality which I ad been fighting with this whole time. It was like my mind had refused to accept the very notion of it and I wondered wh

AURORA“Wow.” He said it quietly, as it was obvious he was reflecting on everything I had just told him.It was obvious he hadn’t expected the story to land the way it did, but that was my reality.Still, there was a certain level of calm in my mind because as I watched his face, I still couldn’t see that sign of pity which a lot of people had when they saw me in that condition. It was more of a look of understanding. Someone who could relate to my own pain as well, at least in his own way.“Yeah,” I said, my voice thinner than I wanted it to be. “It was a lot of stress on me. For a long time.”He nodded once. “I’m sorry you had to go through that.” He finally said,The words were simple, but they didn’t sound rehearsed or anything. He didn’t rush to fill the silence afterward either, which somehow made it worse. Or better. I couldn’t decide.“But,” he finally continued, eyes still on me, “it makes sense now.”I frowned. “What does?”“Why you’re scared.”I folded my arms over my chest

AURORAI could not believe Ethan had tried to put his hands on me.I did not think for a second since he and I began seeing each other that he was violent but what I witnessed and was part of just minutes ago showed he was!Clarissa was right and it was time to end things with him.If Antonio had not been there, he would have hit me!My phone trilled, interrupting my thoughts.It was my sister, Seraphina.She and I had not spoken in a while and for a moment, I considered letting it ring. It wasn’t that I did not want to speak with her but more of the fact that I was not in the head space to do so right now and I knew she would clock it in my voice or tone.I had painted!For the first time without feeling any fear or being in my head or wondering when next I would hold onto a brush if I became sick again.And I had Antonio to thank for this.He had immediately seen my fears and it had mirrored his.I could not imagine what it would have felt like to be blind and then when it was final

AURORA“What the fuck.”The sound tore out of me before I could stop it, as I found myself fighting to take air into my system. The whole shock of the scene that was unfolding before me was something that I hadn’t quite made sense of yet.I gasped and stumbled backward, my heel catching on something hard. Pain shot up my leg as I collided with a low stone edge, maybe a bench, maybe part of the garden wall I didn’t know and I clearly wasn’t so concerned about it. My heart was pounding too loudly, drowning out everything else.The image was still burned into my eyes.Her mouth on his.The noise I’d made from the whole stumbling was much more than I realized, because as I looked up, Antonio was staring straight at me.For a few seconds, neither of us moved.His eyes were locked directly on mine, as I stood there speechless. I looked around and I saw the woman walking away, but he didn’t look after her or even try to follow her. He just had his eyes fixed on me.He looked surprisingly com