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March 29 - March 29, 2023
“I’m not getting naked for you to paint me like one of your French girls.”
As much as I’d thrived on seclusion when loneliness had been my primary goal, now it only served as a source for direct, unfettered access to pain I didn’t want to feel.
I didn’t come here to… feel good. I came here to feel all the shit I’ve suppressed for two years, and it’s not okay for me to just… not. I can delay it, fine. But I don’t get to skip it. And that’s what I should be focused on, not… cute potential romance. It’s gross.”
Right now… my only certainty was the surefire uncertainty tomorrow would bring.
“I understand that you’re in a high level of pain and discomfort right now, but… damn, you haven’t even said thank you. So the least you can do is shut the hell up.”
“I don’t know who you think you—” “Just bring your ass, please,”
I wouldn’t have stopped taking backshots to answer the door for a dog.” “Why would you even imply that my mother does such things?” I laughed. “Because she’s an attractive, healthy, vibrant woman. She probably does. Isn’t the fire chief like her boyfriend or something?”
Somehow, he found the energy to sit up, grabbing my wrist to pull me closer. “Just… sit on my face real quick. For like two minutes, come on.”
“Thank you. For all of this. My bad for not saying it sooner.” My eyebrows lifted.
men gossip way more about their conquests than women do.”
“And you only want me because there’s pussy involved.” “That is not true,” he insisted, looking offended. “You can cook too, so…”
I didn’t see her hand coming until it was too late to avoid it – she’d already smacked the hell outta me.
we’d been too damn busy to have the small fights, so we had that big one.
“I don’t want that motherfucker in your face, okay?!”
“Because… goddamnit, because I want you!”
“Sex isn’t an apology.”
It was… grief. It’s a complex thing.”
“So… you’re cute and all that, but… brush your teeth before you sit down with your family. Your breath is on ten.”
“You just called her a… trollop… though.” “And I’ll call her one to her face too, any damn time I please.
“Legal marriage contracts and children are two of the things that make it hardest to get rid of somebody when you’re tired of their ass,
Hurting, but still able to laugh through it. Exhausted, but ready to see what was next. Grieving… but finally able to see the possibility of something else on the horizon.
