open | by the lake
Natalia has been back and forth from the island too many times to count. She's worn the cobbled stones of Rome beneath her feet, existed as a small blip beneath the skyscrapers of New York and felt the chargrin heat of Asia make a home upon her skin; but nothing has ever felt more like home than Marina. Even if she'd always felt a little bit like an outsider - someone looking in through a dirty window. Isabella. It crushes her from the inside out knowing the woman who was once her best friend, is now gone. A name among many; and yet this is the one she feels so deeply. It carves a wound she knows will never heal; for all the things she'd done wrong. Taken Kai's side in the split - held feelings for the man she'd been betrothed to and never sought to mend the distance between them. Nothing would ever be the same, and as she looks out at the lake - still surrounded by crime scene investigators, sans the bodies, the car.... Natalia can't help but feel that they were all drowning with them. "This feels like it's never going to end."










