REJECTED ME BUT KARMA CAME FOR YOU
Her thumb hovered over the call button.
And then she stopped.
Because in her mind, unbidden, came the memory of marble beneath her palms, a body that didn't move, the words "it wasn't supposed to happen" tearing out of her before she even understood what she was saying. She remembered the sound the room made afterward — not silence, exactly, but the absence of every sound a person makes when they're alive. She remembered running. She remembered years of waking up at 3 a.m. with that image behind her eyes.