Nebula: I was a heavy heart to carry
Tw: mentions of abuse. Drabble that might turn into more
Violet looked out the window, the little white house so painfully average. She nodded and opened the car door, stepping out on the street where she grew up for the first time in over two decades.
Violet nodded, thankful that Sutan had agreed to take the key. They walked up the driveway together, stepping onto the patio, Sutan opening the door, and together they stepped into Violet’s childhood home.
The smell hit her like a sledgehammer. The sweet scent of sugar cookies and lemon air freshener in the air. Violet reached out, steadying herself against the wall, her body jolting as she touched the soft velour tapestry, sense memories crashing over her as she remembered how she used to play with the textures, running her hands over the grey flowers on the beige wall, feeling how it went from soft to cold, over and over again. It all looked exactly the same. The little hallway where she used to get ready for school, her tummy tight, her throat already closing up. The marks were still there, black lines along the floor still telling their story of the day she had tried to fight John, the day she had begged and cried not to go to school, her little hands so helpless against a grown man- Violet felt her vision darken. She was going to faint. She was so sure of it, and then-
“Lovely eyes, are you okay?”
Someone wrapped their arms around her, holding her, grounding her, faint whifs of cigarettes filling her nose, coarse suitfabric and soft silk against her face. Sutan was here. He was here, and she wasn’t alone, not anymore.