Lahat ng Kabanata ng Lady of the dirt track: Kabanata 151 - Kabanata 160

Greg: The apartment is exactly how you left it before I returned into your life. I managed to get a flight back to San Diego tonight. I left my copy of your key on the kitchen counter. I’m sorry for trying to control your life without your permission or input. I was scared, and I handled it badly. I

I grip the armrest for the first few minutes of ascent until finally— Ding. The seatbelt sign is switched off. The plane has leveled out. And the medication has hit me fully. The tension slowly drains from my body like someone is releasing a valve. My eyelids have become heavier. The engine noise fa

GregI wake up to pure silence. Not the comforting kind either. The kind that presses down on my chest and makes the entire house feel hollow. For a few seconds, I stare blankly at the ceiling above me, disoriented from the deep sleep I had crashed into sometime after dawn. My body aches from the fl

I barely sleep at night right now. Every time I close my eyes, I either see Jen crying in that hospital room or imagine her in San Francisco, finally deciding she was done with me for good. By seven in the morning, I have given up pretending sleep is going to happen. The house is quiet as I sit at t

Days later, I am losing my mind. I have tried to distract myself. Training. Sponsors calls. Meetings. Time with my parents. Anything to stop thinking about the fact that Jen is in California and yet somehow, she feels impossibly far away. Every morning, I would wake up, reach for my phone, hoping th