Twisting back around, I walked away, the cloud in my head thickening again until the pain of wanting him turned into an addiction to the pain of rejecting him. It grew and fed me every day from that point on. Destroying myself and everything I loved and wanted for myself became the only thing I had any control over. I could ignore him in class. Pass him in the halls without a look. Act like he didn’t exist. Pretend I was above it all and they were nothing. I did it all. Time passed, seasons changed, he left for college, and a year later, so did I. What I didn’t know then was that the damage we
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