The Daydreams

by Laura Hankin

What starts as pure excitement from getting to be around you can turn, without warning, to anger that you won’t give them what they want.

Maybe the trick to dealing with the guilt is not to get as far away from it as possible, but to hurtle directly into the center of it. The center is where I can make things right.

I guess you can get used to anything. I don’t know if that’s comforting or terrifying.)

Still, there’s something about your first love. Some part of you, the part that longs for who you used to be, will always care too much about them. They will always be . . . charged, if you are lucky or unlucky enough to encounter them again.