Love Stories

Is any love really perfect? Gia pondered this as she sat at the crowded kitchen table listening to her parents argue while making breakfast. The T.V shows that she watched in secret late at night portrayed love as something divine, a little bit of heaven that the ordinary man and woman in the picture were lucky enough to be blessed with. These romances stayed with her long after she went to bed, reappearing in her mind as dreams. If love seemed so blissful on the big screen, then it must be that way in real life. Gia snapped out of her daydream as a knife clattered to the floor in the kitchen, looking behind her she could see her mother glaring at her father. She turned around, no emotion came across her face as the screaming started, at this point she was used to it. She slipped back into her thoughts to escape her reality, and she thought about the differences in love. Her parents never seemed happy or excited to be with each other like the people on T.V did. Was this real love? The screaming intensified. Gia lowered her head, if this is what love really was, she'd stay single the rest of her life.