The Ex-Change
And sitting on the far desk, neatly tucked between two architectural models, is something that definitely doesn’t belong.
A small, familiar yellow notebook.
My chest tightens.
I know this notebook.
Because it’s mine.
Or at least, it was.
I walk toward it slowly, as if approaching too fast will make it disappear. I reach out and carefully pick it up, my fingers brushing the worn edges.
I flip it open.
My handwriting stares back at me.
It’s from three years ago, filled with my old notes—ideas, sketches, random bits of code I had scribbled down. I had thought I lost it when we split up.