Amelia Bridget

Current stress level: Elizabeth James finding out that she’s going to be seeing Nick Parker after 11 years.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if you had stayed. What art we would have on the walls - yours and mine overlapping, photos of each other blurry and laughing. How many plants we would have let overcrowd our floor, how many poems i'd read to make you sleepy, how many breakfasts we would spend saying "after this we go right back to bed." We were always trying to make the other person laugh but I picture more often just how you'd look in my kitchen, stirring a coffee and humming tunelessly. Maybe we would spend every Friday dancing. Maybe you'd have taught me embroidery or how to sing and I'd have shown you waltzing. Maybe we would have a dog or a cat or an engagement ring. Maybe we would have a secret stash of your favorite candy. Maybe you would have loved my mom and maybe she would have said you were good for me.

“how come you’re single?”

“But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. All my life long.”