Regretting You

by Colleen Hoover

Sometimes when we’re alone, he looks at me in a way that makes me feel empty when he looks away. It’s a feeling I’ve never gotten when Chris looks at me. This realization scares me to death. Until lately, it seems I’ve gone my whole life without experiencing this feeling, but now that I have, it’s as if part of me disappears when the feeling disappears.

Random, nosy, maybe even hyper.

It isn’t until this moment that I’m reminded of the heaviness I used to feel when he was around. Sharing the same air with him sometimes 37felt stifling back then, like he was selfishly taking more of it than he needed and I was hardly left with any air at all.

Find something to fill all the empty corners.

Sometimes when he says things to me, his words feel like they reach me through my chest rather than through my ears.