A/N: I know that it's not good, honestly. It's late at night (I don't know what time it is, you'll know why when you read it) and I'm very out of practice. In fact, I don't even know why I wrote this. It's stupid. But please, I beg you, no flames. Criticism only.

I wrote this to warn people about watches, and how abruptly they can get busted.

Busted Watches

Topaz Waves

It was supposed to be waterproof.

It had remained intact after countless showers, hand washings, and all of those times I had washed dishes for the Home Ec. Teacher seventh period.

But no, one quick dip in the pool, and it's busted.

I had never really liked that watch. I liked the one that I had before, the downfall of which, oddly enough, was also aquatic in nature.

There! I just did it again. I looked at my wrist. And there's no clock around here...it's amazing how one can feel so lost without such an ordinary, familiar item like a watch. I can't stop doing it...

I guess it's the same thing as a child giving up their favorite blanket or teddy bear. It's hard to sleep through the first night, but it gets easier...That is, until you're all grown up and your boyfriend breaks up with you, or you get your first parking ticket, or you get fired; you miss the familiar comfort.

I accepted that my watch was broken. It was cheap. I didn't really like it. It was easy to give up, until I was robbed of the simple luxury of knowing how late at night it is...

It's also like a patch of woods that just sits there. People drive by it, live around, walk by it every day. Then the loggers come in. They mercilessly take every tree to the blade until the woods are all gone...And only then do people start to notice. They drive by, they look out their window, they go out for a walk...And their heart twists a little looking at that army of bare stumps. Just a little. Because a part of their world is gone.

That's how I feel, and all because I don't know the time.

Suppose that there's this necklace that you always wear. It hangs there, around your neck, each and every day. You may be sick of it. But you wear it every day. Why? I don't know, maybe a boyfriend gave it to you, one whom you've long since parted with, and you don it out of habit. What happens when you take it off? You might reach up to nervously play with it at some point, and it's not there...You stand in front of your bathroom mirror, getting ready for bed. You look in the mirror, but your mind is already in tune with the fact that you're wearing a necklace; it's only when you reach up to undo the clasp that you remember where it is. You feel strange for a second.

I still don't know what time it is.

We should all learn to appreciate the watches in our life, before they get busted.