This didn't really come out as I wanted it to...?
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And there it was, right in the pupil of her eye, a faint break of heart. A shattering of moral.
The death of her confidence, of her colored eyes, of her sweet demeanor.
All so swift; now she stood, lungs pumping air, heart pumping blood, but brain pumping no thoughts.
She could not think.
That was her everything.
All in one note, all summed up, all by the man she loved, the man who left.
"I'm a time traveler," it said. "and I shouldn't have gotten involved with you. But I let myself slip up and love just this once. And I'm sorry. Forgive me.
Forgive me for breaking you.
I'm never coming back, Adelaide, for your sake."
She wasn't anywhere near it, but she could recite the words in her head as if he spoke them freshly to her. Without tears in his voice, too, that's how he would've said it. Clear and concise. Adelaide really out to have more faith in him than that.
The tears he had left on the paper were long dried, but hers had just begun to erode it.
Chills racked her body. They escaped through her mouth in hollow, hollow, hollow screams. Her fingers scraped the pavement.
No one was out in the quaint town this late, but someone was sure to hear her sobs, her cries; her smashing of the clocks with a bat. She hated clocks. She hated time. All of it. Every tick in her ear was a battle cry, the clock screaming to take it on, the little ticking fingers were slits of eyes in against the white palette.
They bore into her thoughts, those clocks did, evil little things.
No one, not even he, knew how much he meant to her.
She could never let on that she was so weak, so dependent on someone who was bound to leave anyways. Yet, even on the nights where he stayed just a room above, she sobbed for the day he would leave. Adelaide would never be able to voice how much he meant to her.
But every breath she breathed was for him, every tear she weept was for him, every spec of blood she bled was for him. Her heart sped up for him, her eyes blinked for him, they kept their color, their blue, blue sky, blue nights, blue times, blue.
She didn't much like the color blue anymore.
But she loved gold. Gold. The color of his eyes, gold; the color of her future self, he said, all wrapped up, all famous, a golden statue in the park. For what she'd be bestowed with such honor he didn't say.
Adelaide ceased to continue everything but breathe and cry when he left. No one knew why. Only a few had met him. They didn't know where he was and they didn't ask. They didn't know if he hurt her, or if he perished, or if he simply left; they didn't know if she was weeping for him or for some other being, but they knew it was never to stop.
One night, the sobbing stopped. Everyone got a good rest.
The sobbing was never to ring again.
Adelaide found purpose.
Adelaide was building her own time machine. She was going to find him. She was going to do everything in her power to feel his cool touch once more. She was going to enlist the help of clocks- no, she was going to deceive the clocks, and with glee.
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Many years.
Many years it took her.
But she did it, now it worked, she could travel through time.
May 2nd, 2012, she repeated in her mind. That was the day she did it. It had all been leading up to this.
She only faced one last problem, and that was finding him; she would spend all of her days searching, though, if she had to. The first day she went to was May 2nd, 2015. He had always said that it would forever remain his favorite day.
She had been spending her time staring at the large golden statue of herself. It was very shiny. She couldn't think of anything else. It hurt. He was right.
"Adelaide Taylor"She blinked away tears.
"Time Traveler"She crumpled to the ground. She finally understood why he left her; why he left her to smash the clocks, and scratch the pavement until her nails bled, and cry until she collapsed from exhaustion, and scream and bellow and yell.
He had to have gone for her to invent time traveling out of desperation, out of love; he couldn't have come to her if she didn't, for he didn't invent it, she did. A loop. A deafening loop.
But what was she to do now? Continue searching for him for the rest of her days?
Oh, no, no; he had already found her. May 2nd, 2015, his favorite day, the day he found Adelaide for the first time.