I Never Thought Of It That Way Novels & Stories

Just the thought of it put butterflies in my stomach. "Never again" seemed a little far-fetched.

“I think you’re being naive.” The words "It's my life" nearly escaped her lips in a hysterical burst, but she held them back. She knew it was never the right thing to say. She had shouted it at her family once during breakfast when she was thirteen, but they had all laughed and called her "CAPSLOCK!ARDY" for weeks. "Maybe. But not thinking exactly like you do isn't necessarily a deficiency in my worldview, y'know," she said instead. "Ouch."

Instead, I thought so ill of him that he wanted me dead. When did things become this way?

IRENE I couldn’t help but think of what an idiot I was, I mean I had just made up my mind not to think about him again this was barely 6 hours ago but that was all I could think of for the past 6 hours at work and even now that I was in the cab on my way back home. If I didn’t know better I would have felt this was a spell.

The thought didn't fix anything. But it made the bench feel a little less cold

Free. And the thought that it wasn’t me made the silence heavier than ever.

And I never even thought I would find myself saying that! --------------

And now this. Well, I wasn’t going to let him keep thinking of me that way. I wouldn’t stand for it.

The thought didn't sit well with me, but I didn't have a choice. "Okay"

I couldn’t afford to think like that. This was my chance. My only chance. And I wasn’t going to waste it.