Hamartia

by Scarlett Drake

“Yeah, and maybe that’s part of the problem. Like I’m sitting around here waiting for you to get bored of me and it’s stressing me the fuck out.”

“Because everyone who’s ever loved me—who has ever tried to be with me—has always decided that in the end it is too hard. That I am too…difficult.” He shakes his head like that’s not quite what he meant. “That it is too much hard work to be with me. To love me.”