Selena
I did not realize I was crying until the salt on my lips reminded me, until the tears slipped freely down my cheeks and my body felt impossibly heavy, as if the space around me had contracted into a cage.
The door had barely closed behind them, and the silence that followed pressed against my chest, suffocating, relentless, until I could barely breathe.
My legs trembled under me, as if they no longer belonged to me, and for a long moment I simply stood there, staring at the emptiness they had left behind.
Everything still felt like a bad dream.
Just moments ago, they had been so close I could feel them, their presence surrounding me, and for a moment I thought this was it, and that whatever has been broken between between us could be fixed.
Little did I know I had been so wrong.
The echo of their words, cold, sharp, and unforgiving, replayed endlessly in my mind, each repetition a cruel reminder of the truth I did not want to face.
