AnimeFangirl1023

    They kept knocking.    “Go away,” she’d tell them, disinterested by now in their placating gestures and their pitiful attempts to “connect.” Yet, even as she denied the incessant banging, still it followed again, just once, twice, and thrice before there came a palpable silence, and the deliberate retreat of footfalls.    “Get out of here, Madi—just go home!”    She caught her breath, unaware that she might have been guarding it, after a beat of rest. A beat: the intuitive ba-thump, ba-thump, the time in which everything and anything could happen, trust could be born, and hearts could be