Howard

Nearly two weeks. It had been two weeks since Zoe seemed to have disappeared, and I was starting to get really worried. Even when she shut me out when she wasn’t in the best mood, it was only for a few days, and she wouldn’t completely ignore me. The longest we went without even texting was when she first found out I had to avoid her, but back then, I still got to see her. This time, I wasn’t getting through to her.

Could something have happened to her?

I thought about asking Ben, but I was reluctant. He didn’t seem worried when I saw him yesterday that Zoe had failed to show up again. The first few times, he’d at least asked after her. Did he know where she was? Was I the only one she wasn’t talking to?

Fuck, did I do something wrong without realizing? Or… was she pulling away because I told her I loved her?

I knew I should have talked to her properly first!

If she was running scared because I said I loved her, then what did that mean? She’d said she felt the same way, but that could