Fade

She questioned herself if she had a right to be unhappy since after all nothing had happened. It was same as it always was except she had changed. After six years their relationship had been firmly established and was beginning to dry out. What had started as a passionate relationship became a companionate partnership as the years passed. The love was there but the color of that love was muted to a softer tone. Diane looked across her shoulder as Jake passed her a bottle of water. Here was the man with whom she had spent the last six years of her life. While she was grateful, she could not deny she felt discontent. Those years came with a price she wasn’t sure she wanted to pay anymore.