Sometimes simple words hurt the most. When someone dances
around the point you can tell that they’re worried about what they’re about to
say. They actually still care a little bit about you. But when they come right
out with it, like it’s the easiest thing in the world… I don’t know. When she
said it, I didn’t really hear her. It was like she was asking me what I wanted
for tea. She just plopped her keys down on the side and turned to me. Hands on
hips.
And I’ve said it more times than I can count. On the sofa
one night when she said that Nicolas Cage was her favourite actor and in the
kitchen when she told me she didn’t really like drinking coffee that much. But
it was a joke. Always a joke. And she’d always laugh.
I ask her to repeat it and she looks at me, with those grey
eyes that used to be green, I’m sure of it. She sighs before leaving the room
in a huff. I wait in the living room, staring at the door, my eyes slightly
wandering back to the TV where Countdown is playing. Someone just got seven
points.
She’s back. She’s got her suitcase in her hand.
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