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🪽 ten. promises . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.
When someone abandons you, your memory of them still exists.
That person might not be there, their presence isn't..present, but your memories of that person will still exist, no matter what. You never forget the way their face looks, how they liked their coffee or tea, their favorite song, their favorite movie. Every single thing about them is still engraved in your mind, whether it's intentional or not. You can still feel them there even though they weren't physically there. It takes a tremendous amount of time to completely forget about a person who has abandoned you, but they will still linger in the back of your head, and they will never leave, no matter what efforts you make.
People who have abandoned you can range in different relationships. Your mother, your father, your family member, or your significant other, your friends, anyone who you could think of can just drop their bags, and leave without you. To some people, it was easy to abandoned their lives entirely and never look back while others had struggled until they left too late.
Either way, when a human being is gone, your memories of them still remains.
In Tala's case, the person who abandoned her came to her like an injured dog, and she, mistakenly, took him back in. Why? Because he was her husband after all, and Tala would never turn her back on her family. But this was her husband, and when he came back, she didn't know how to feel. A majority of people would've instantly made up about how they felt if their significant other had randomly showed up after abandoning them for years, but she didn't. She had dated Tommy for more than she could even remember, and yeah, it did hurt when he pursued his beliefs in the Fireflies which left her behind, but as strange as it was, she still loved him.
Through those twenty years in the blatant wasteland of the United States, Tala had been together with Tommy for only five years, and that was that. Often times, in the grimy parts of the morning during those excruciating years, she would sometimes look over at the empty side of the bed, and expect to see her husband there.
But he wasn't there.
It hurt. Badly. Tala had cried at just the thought of Tommy leaving again, this time for good, but she couldn't blame him for that long. Tommy was trying, she could appreciate that, but she didn't know how long it would take for her to fully recover. She would never expect her own husband to leave, but whatever.
Tala tried not to care as she left the Tipsy Bison while fumbling with the pack of cigarettes she had stolen from Tommy. She didn't smoke, growing to hate the smell of it because of her mother, but she had found it necessary to have one. Tala bit down into the orange filter of the cigarette and she cupped the cigarette as she curled her thumb against the wheel of the steel zippo, a flame lighting up the end. She pocketed the lighter, and she exhaled the smoke from the cigarette. Tala felt fidgety. Her thumb repeatedly flicked the filter even though there was no ash built up at the end, and she took another long drag.
