It's a Love Story

by Annabel Monaghan

I try on the feeling, just for a second, of what it would be like to belong to him.

There’s a difference between someone loving you and agreeing with every single thing you do.”

She didn’t love me, she just loved the idea of me.”

“It’s the best smile, but more than that, I just like thinking you’re happy.”

I have never heard a word resonate with so much clarity. Compelling is the exact thing I am not. It’s been a feeling I’ve had for decades, but I’ve never been able to name it before.

I don’t know anything about what’s going to happen in the future, but I know that I have spent a lot of time lying in the past, pretending that I didn’t want to get invited to the ball because I never thought I could be invited.