I Stopped Waiting For You
"What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind? Why did you touch her? Take it out on me if you want.
Camille cried behind him, hands over her face.
I sat on the ground and looked up at him. My palm and knee throbbed, a fine, spreading pain that made my whole body shake. But watching him plant himself between me and Camille, I suddenly stopped feeling any of it.
I got up off the ground, looked at him once, and turned to walk away.
I bought a train ticket to a small town down south. As the train pulled out, the sky outside the window was just beginning to lighten. I leaned back against my seat and closed my eyes. All I could think of was my mother's hand in mine, on her deathbed, and the wor