The pain in her foot was so suddenly the most irrelevant thing on her mind. Like a stubbed toe, what was once a nuisance is now a memory that you’ll probably have no reason to recall, because after that, it’s irrelevant.
Someone must be choking her, because in an instant, she can’t seem to breathe. Breathing is necessary, and nobody is choking her, so her body and mind has just decided to stop functioning. It short-circuited from a switch in the system, the system being her emotional state.
There comes a point in which you must breathe, which arrived as quickly as her breath was taken away. Labored gasps leaving in place of her once only slightly irregular breathing pattern. That was only from physical pain, though that kind of pain hurts very much, it doesn’t even compare to the pain that can well up in your chest, your heart.
The effect is even more powerful when you don’t expect the blow. You can’t even brace yourself because you don’t see it coming.
On a rainy day like this, at 3 in the morning, on a practically empty subway train, nobody would be expecting a phone call. If the time wasn’t an indication that something wasn’t quite right, then the phone number most definitely is.
When you get a call from your girlfriends mother, at 3 AM, while you haven’t had any with said lover in a couple hours at least, there’s without a doubt something going on. When the familiar voice rings through the device and into your sound-sensitive ear that hasn’t heard a voice in quite a while, scared and breathy with clear signs of panic, that’s indication number 2.
Indication that something is absolutely wrong, is when the first two words said are enough to physically stop your heart until you think you may actually die then and there.
“She’s gone”
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