Broken Bond
Then I push away from the table, the wooden chair legs screeching against the floor, and rise to stand on shaky legs.
Cal’s sketchbook is still on the table. The cover is now stained with tears, the black bleeding to grey like watercolor paint. I don’t know why he gave it to me; why he’d think I’d want to look at his art after he ripped my heart out and stomped all over it. Something in me does, though, if only to remind myself that I’m not a fool. That there’s a side to Callum that nobody else sees, and I caught a glimpse of it. It was real. We were real.
I drop back into the chair, flipping the cover back to reveal the first page.
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