Taylor Swift - Red

 

 

[Word count: 466]

 

Red

  As Lu Han sits across from her in the coffee shop, nursing a cup of hot chocolate in hand, he can’t help but noticed how the snow flurries outside had picked up, flakes suddenly that much more urgent as they fluttered with the wind.   Inside, however, is warm, and he turns his attention back to the girl sitting in front of him, wrapped in a soft red scarf and silently sipping her own drink.   “Caramel mocha?” he asks, studying her.   The girl nods, and smiles a little. “Hot chocolate?”   Lu Han laughs. She had remembered his aversion to coffee.   They sit in silence again, just watching each other.   It has been almost a year since they had sat together, like this, in this café. Lu Han remembers it vividly, because the big fight and ensuing breakup happened only two days later. Actually, Lu Han thinks, they haven’t even spoken to each other since.   Lu Han has come to realize that loving her is like the colors in autumn, so bright before they lose it all and ending so suddenly. Fighting with her was like trying to solve a crossword with no right answer, because even though they were both to blame, the breakup had mostly been his fault.   In the past months, trying to forget her had made him wish that he never found love that strong. At least then, he wouldn’t know