The girl's heart races as he walks by...
He slowly strides toward her
His smile lights up her world
But his eyes...the eyes that are windows to his soul...
Don't look her way...

He walks past her...

Smiling....

But not at her.....

Instead at the girl on the other side.

A sound comes from somewhere in the room...
A loud cracking noise
She looks around startled....
No one else seem concerned with the noise....
She realizes that its her heart....
Breaking....
She wonders at the pain...
Swimming in it.
Letting it envelop her,
Surrounding her,
Filling her,
Become her.
Now she walks around with a smile.
A smile that is hiding the shattered pieces of her heart.
And a life that wonders why.
Hiding the truth because in the end that's always easier than living.