oceanumbrellas

      "Why do we tell people we care, only to toss them out like the trash afterward?"      It was something Leira had wanted to know since Valentine's Day, not that she had been able to formulate the exact wording of such a thought that day. It was there now though, like the hook of a bad pop song, playing over and over in her mind while washed her lunch dishes in the even tinier kitchen of a decidedly tiny apartment.      Leira had never been one to buy into the Valentine's Day hype, she hadn't been raised that way, and she'd never known anyone to bother. Anthony had bothered though, he'd bothered with flowers a year ago when he'd final