From Lukov with Love

by Mariana Zapata

Stop looking at me, I mouthed. No, he mouthed back.

He was argumentative, arrogant, blunt…. I’d just described myself, hadn’t I? Shit.

I became my own worst enemy. My own most critical judge. The one and only person who was guilty of sabotaging herself.

“You don’t get to become good at anything without sacrificing something to make time.”

But mostly, I cried because while I didn’t care what most people thought of me, I cared too much about the people whose opinion I did value.

I’m not going to give up what I love just because I might not have it forever,”