Little Box

She touched the little box in her pocket and smiled as she thought of him.
"You're everything to me. Here, keep this with you to remind me of you. Janina, I love you and I always will." She looked at him with tears streaming down her face.
"Don't leave me, Darius. I don't want you go!" He held her, and kissed her gently.
"Trust me, I don't want to go. But I have to, for us so we can live a better life."
*CLANG*
Janina is brought back to reality as someone dropped a pan on the floor. After her long shift at a local fast-food place, she trudges to her tiny apartment in the rain. It's been 3 months since Darius had left her to join the army. They weren't married yet, so she couldn't come with him, and he was all the way on the other side of the country. A pain in the wallet to get to. He gave her a tiny box, in the shape of a heart with her favorite blue jewels on it. Inside was a picture of them on their one year anniversary. She took it everywhere.

©C.Andreas
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