Broken Bond
“I’m not scared. You are. So let me know when you decide to stop self-sabotaging and actually allow yourself to have something good in your life. Until then, I’m out.”
She scoops her boots off the floor, strands of her long hair whipping my chest as she turns sharply and struts out of my room.
I’m rooted to the spot I’m standing in, unable to move. Unable to breathe. Distantly, I hear the front door of my apartment open and then slam closed, but I’m still frozen in place. The silence creeps in, my throat tightening as Nessa’s words echo in my mind.
She’s wrong, though.
I don’t deserve anything good in my life. She’s just too sweet and naïve to see me for who I really am.
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