Challenge Prompt - FIRST TIME

Author : ikanrerama
Notes : joined this writing challenge online. time-limit was 30min and it took me 21mins 20sec to finish it. i've got good reviews of it, and they encouraged me to post it public. so here it goes. hope you enjoy it. my first of many.


Those little things slipped unnoticed first. A clean house, food on the table, a pleasant company to play cards. While looking for a particular shirt, he opened his cupboard to find his clothes neatly arranged and the realization of what it all meant, left him reeling. Then and there, he had freaked out.

Because the first time he wanted someone's affection so much, that person would never give it.

Because the first time he thinks a person had actually cared, he had left him.

Thus, the first time he found that someone who might actually give him the love he craved so much and would always be there for him, he ran away.

Because he doesn't want to want and be left behind again.