100 Word Challenge – Week #157

To check out and join the 100 word challenge – click here. This week’s prompt is “.. and so it begins…”

“Why not?”, he asked.

“Transference,” she said. She forked some salad into her mouth.

“Really? Who do I remind you of?”

She swallowed and paused a beat. “I was ten years old”. She kept her eyes on his face, watching his expression.

He was a sharp one, granted, quick to understand. “Is he still alive?”

She nodded.

“I’d like to kill him,” he scowled. He took a sip of wine and stared unhappily back at her.

Her heart clenched with irrational misgivings. Perhaps she wasn’t being fair. She reached out for his hand, and so it begins…