Sunburn

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

All along I felt so far away from everybody else, but now I think I was just far away from myself.

Wouldn’t it be nice if I could be a person on my own?

Besides dying, this is the very last certain thing in my life.

How simple it would be, to be one in a herd.

I don’t need to convince myself that I love her. I don’t need to convince anybody but myself that I love Martin.

‘If you’d lose them over this, then maybe you never had them at all.’