Broken gem(s) She was walking by the street cold and pale she needed a woolen sheet to keep away the hail. She’d been then six a poor, helpless orphan. Her shiver in the cold wasn’t rare, it was now seen quite often. All that she had, was a little red gem inherited from her Dad, it said "with love, for my lad" Like his presence in his absence, she always found him in the gem. The emptiness it would cover, That's how the loneliness was over. That day felt, to be exceptionally cold her body felt numb, she lost her grip. The gem would break apart and a beat was skipped by her heart. The man who stood across the lane, also startled by the sound and that’s when a look at the pieces could tell him that they could earn him, a considerably good sum. To ashes the human inside him would burn. Since, he decided to do that for the money to steal a gem, gifted by a father to his honey. Her sensitive hands joined to plead to get hers back...stolen by t...
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