After asking me to make a choice, Arthur disappeared.Not physically disappearance, he was still in the house, still sleeping in his room and still breathing the same air as me, but he might as well have fucking vanished. The man who once watched me like I was a tempting incarnate now treated me like a ghost. He passed me in the hallways without looking up, took calls behind closed doors, left early for work and came back late. We were still in the same space, but his silence was louder than any argument we have ever had and that hurt more than I expected.I had completely made up my mind, so I wasn’t confused or acting out and I definitely wasn’t a hurt girl looking for comfort. I knew exactly what I wanted, and for once in my life, I wasn’t afraid of wanting it. But Arthur… Arthur was afraid.I saw it in the way his shoulders stiffened whenever I walked by, the way he flinched when my mother called and the way he drank more at night while staring into nothing like a man standing
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