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.

“I don’t know what this is, but what I do know is that it feels right. Everything feels right with you.”

“No, because for reasons I can’t explain, being with you feels right. How can I freak out when it feels like this is the place that I should absolutely be, with the person I should absolutely be with?”

“Yes. I want to know everything about you, which means I want to know about James too. I want to know all about the person who will always hold a piece of your heart.”

“I’ve realized that life ends, but love doesn’t. I’ll never stop loving you,”

“My heart was half-empty without you here. I’m going to let Liam fill it up again.”