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Hephaestus – Chapter 11
CHAPTER 11
Scar:
A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.
A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical: nightmares, anxiety, and other enduring scars of wartime experiences.
Botany A mark indicating a former attachment, as of a leaf to a stem.
A mark, such as a dent, resulting from use or contact.
v. scarred, scar·ring, scars
To mark with a scar.
To leave lasting signs of damage on: a wretched childhood that scarred his psyche.
To form a scar: The pustule healed and scarred.
To become scarred: delicate skin that scars easily.
The morning after – Midday – Penny’s Studios – New York
“Can you hear me?”.
Carmen pushes the black button and lends her head towards the microphone.
Behind the glass panel, the singer nods.
“Alright. Let’s play again the last verse and chorus, but a bit faster this time… it was so slow that I was almost falling asleep…”. Carmen jokes.
The singer laughs.
“Alright”, he says with a grin, and motions back to rest of the band.
The music starts again and Carmen closes her eyes, enjoying the flow of sounds coming into the small room.
She cannot stop thinking about Shane’s proposal.
She rubs her forehead and sighs.
Anytime something really heavy happens, Shane gets all emotional and:
1) Fucks somebody else because she’s feeling sad or
2) Wants to get married
Carmen stares at nothing, her hands pressed against her mouth.
She loves her.
She is madly in love with Shane.
There’s something different in her eyes, now.
Sometimes, they look scared, they look helpless. Powerless.
At the same time, Carmen can feel, like waves crashing on a desert shore, the huge amount of love Shane has in store for her.
Flashback – The Previous Night
“No, Shane, I am not going to marry you”, Carmen said, slowly shaking her head.
Shane’s head lowered.
“Oh…”, she simply murmured staring at the unmade sheets of the bed.
Carmen swallowed, feeling her heart breaking, and listened to the silence of the room for a long time.
Then, she grabbed Shane’s hand and kissed it.
“Babe…”, she whispered.
“Babe, look at me. Please, look at me”.
She gently touched Shane’s chin until their eyes finally met.
Shane’s face was full of many clashing feelings.
Disappointment.
Tenderness.
Pain.
Guilt.
And love, love above all.
Carmen removed a strand of hair from Shane’s eyes.
“I shouldn’t say that. Even less I should keep on repeating it. But I am desperately in love with you. It’s so huge that it hurts… It’s even worse than before and It takes my breath away. I am desperately in love with the desperately beautiful person you are. Okay?”.
Shane’s eyes were enormous and, for a second, Carmen thought that she would sink into those endless pools of silent green.
Sink and forget all the pain.
“…Okay? But things are not the same as they were three years ago. We are both older. We both went through a lot of shit. There’s still this spellbounding feeling every time I look at you, there is still this emotive crack opening inside of me every time you touch me, every time you make love to me, but… We are different, we are definitely changed…”.
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Aww, what a sweet chapter. They are so cute together. Did I mentioned that I love this story? ;-))