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His mother used to say you shouldn’t marry anyone you wouldn’t want to divorce, and he understood that now. Lorraine was the emotional equivalent of a hollow-point round; the exit wound was a shit show.
It’s not I promise No judgments I don’t know your life Your struggles YOUR JOURNEY
Penny thought of this Korean saying for when you really, really liked something. You’d say it “fit your heart exactly.” Sam fit her heart exactly.
She smiled. Sam smiled back. She died.
Sam watched as she jog-hopped through the sliding glass doors. He missed her the second she fell out of view.
Sam stared at her for a moment. Then he went for it.
“Are you on birth control?” “What? Mom. We’re not sleeping together. I’m in love with him.” “Oh, thank God, because, Penny, that isn’t a boy. That’s an actual man.”
Penny took a deep breath. “How do you know if you’re in love?” Penny snuck a peek at her mom and could practically hear the AWWWWWWW in her head and Care Bear stares flying out of her eyes.
“It’s more this undeniable mood. It’s this warm, familiar, and exciting feeling where you miss them already when you’re with them.”
STILL PENNY.
Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.
Penny thought about how certain physicists believed that reality is a simulation created by future civilizations purely for entertainment. There was no way to know who was running the show. To be the hero, you had to decide it was you.
Penny’s mouth was dry. She crept to the bathroom quietly to brush her teeth.
