Two days have felt like two hundred years. Every night stretched into a week spent in bed. I cried a river while waiting for a message I already knew I could never receive.
My heart is disappointed, though.
I donโt know which truth is real. Was it that you sold our love within a few minutes? Or was our love simply never as big as I believed it was?
Maybe itโs the disappointment itself, the way it changed the color of life. Or the way they looked at me across the dining table as tears gathered in my eyes, while my trembling hand reached for my neck, tracing the bruises I earned for us.
I donโt know how to feel.
Should I mourn the shattered heart inside my own chest? Or should I grieve the love we built together?
Did you really say those words?
I keep asking myself that question until it echoes louder than silence.
I canโt even find the courage to reach for your heart again. Uncertainty has built a home inside mine.
Did you really say those things about me?
Or was it them, weaving lies between us, trying to separate two hearts that only ever wanted each other?
My eighteenth birthday felt like every birthday before it.
I sat at the restaurantโs table, staring at the birthday cake, feeling nothing except the sharp sting of the bruises scattered across my body, and the scars that seemed to bloom beneath my skin.
I swallowed every tear before it could escape.
I wore a smile that never belonged to me.
I was forced to become the happy birthday girl.
As I leaned forward and blew out the candles, I rested back in my chair. My head felt strangely light.
My fingers drifted into my hair without thinking, and somehow it felt thinner than it had yesterday.
The strands scattered across my bedroom floor.
Each one lying in a corner of its own, waiting where I had left them, as though pieces of me had quietly abandoned my body before I ever could.
But no matter how many questions remain unansweredโฆ