This Used to be Easier

by Katia Rose

I already knew I was going to give Connie my whole heart some day. I just didn’t know she’d break it.

She was my favourite person in the entire world, and now she’s just a ghost that flickers out of view every time I spot her.

She’s not the girl I knew, but that girl is still in there somewhere, and as I stand here in this grocery store with what feels like miles of space and a couple watermelons between us, I ache to find her again.

I didn’t think I could still feel this way. I don’t want to feel this way. Last time, it ruined everything. It made it all so complicated. I couldn’t take it, and just when I finally realized what she meant to me, she was gone.