Falling to Pieces

“A funny thing happens when you miss someone badly enough. I can be in a room full of friendly faces, surrounded by laughter and celebration, but to me, it’s all just light and noise. I’ll smile and make small talk, but it’s all a performance. The truth is, I’m someplace else with you.”

“It happened slowly at first, small arguments here and there, sleeping in opposite directions, waking up on far ends of the bed, but that was only the beginning. Before long, came the forced laughter, half smiles, and false promises. The two of us conversing in a language of blinding white lies. In the end, what you and I shared was no longer a relationship at all, but an awful, prolonged goodbye. The two of us, for whatever reason, were both too terrified to take the final leap, to find the courage to say, “It’s time.”