Water

She was wet and cold, standing by the side of a dark, lonely country road in the torrential summer rain. She shivered, her thin cotton dress transparent in the downpour falling from the sky. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to decide what to do.

She pushed the sodden strands of her hair out of her eyes and took a deep breath. The tears streaming down her face blended with the cool rain. Wondering how things had gone so horribly wrong so fast, she began the long walk home as the taillights of his car receded into the distance.