On the Same Page

by Haley Cass

if someone was worthy of you? They’d move heaven and earth to be with you. There wouldn’t be any “moments of weakness” because you should be the only woman on their mind like that,”

I’m not going to let you sit in my own house and insult my favorite person.”

If Gianna wanted Riley to know something, Riley wanted Gianna to be the one to tell her. Gianna-to-Riley. Not Gianna-to-everyone.

“You’re a giving person,” Riley had said to her a few weeks ago. “Maybe you’ve just been giving to the wrong people.”

But one day, when Riley did inevitably meet someone and have the life she wanted and deserved, how could Gianna not hate herself for never trying to see if that life could have been with her? She sniffed at the thought and knocked solidly on the door; she was no longer in the business of hating herself.