The Right Wrong Number

by Katie Warren

Your absence isn’t quiet. Sometimes it’s the loudest thing on earth. It weighs down on me so heavily that it makes it impossible to breathe.

I know it was just a mix up, a wrong number, but maybe it’s the right wrong number after all.

What is this thing? It’s not a date. It’s just two people meeting who got thrown together by pure coincidence. Yeah, that’s what this is. Not a date. A coincidate.

“I’ve realized that life ends, but love doesn’t. I’ll never stop loving you,” I stammer, my voice trembling. “You were the man I loved when I had you. Liam can be the man I love in a world without you,”