Call It What You Want

by Alissa DeRogatis

I was willing to settle for whatever he would give me because a fraction of him was better than nothing at all.

It’s not the thought of being alone that scares me; it’s the thought of losing the only person I’ve ever really loved for good.

Maybe he doesn’t know what it’s like to have someone who wants to love him, someone who doesn’t want to leave him. But that doesn’t give him an excuse to treat me as if I don’t exist.