I turned away before I allowed him to see just how much he’d hurt me. It shouldn’t have, but I wasn’t stupid; I was falling for Benito. No fuck that. I’d fallen for him. I was so far gone I was at the bottom of the pit. I’d thought for a second we were falling together, that we were braving the unknown side by side. But at some point, Benito had climbed back up and left me alone to rot.
