Breaths

.    "What are you doing?" Her doting mother asked. Still dressed in a wedding dress she scampered around throwing random pieces of clothing into a grey backpack.  "So that's it you're just going to leave everything behind and chase after him?" Still ignoring her mother completely she evaded her making her way towards the open box of clothes."He left you at the altar!" She froze deeply wounded  by her mother's words as if that wasn't obvious enough."At least we got that far" she mumbled under her breath forcing her eyes shut to hold back the tears."What?""I'm thirty five years old mother!" She yelled through her haze of furious tears."I don't have a lot of choices left, he is the only one that was and probably will ever be willing to watch me wear this stupid dress, he may not have been at the end of that aisle waiting