“No,” I sob. “You’re not hearing me! It wasn’t my choice to leave! You have no idea how bad I wanted to turn around and run back into your arms! It took months before I could even so much as breathe without feeling like I was dying inside! So, you’re wrong! I wasn’t living my life as if we never mattered because you have always fucking mattered to me! You mattered to me before you ever considered me as something other than a child!”
