Tag: friends

  • The Fight

    “It was horrific.  The worst.  Like I couldn’t believe what I saw.”  The longer Jennifer went on about the fight, the easier it was to tune her out.  I wondered how long she could talk about a fight and still be interested.  Henderson and Max had gotten into a verbal confrontation – Max threw one…

  • Broken

    Part of me broke the day Liam drove away.  It was part heartbreak, but mostly shame.  If I hadn’t accidentally spilled his secret, he and his family wouldn’t be moving away.  It had to have been me that spilled be the beans, but I wasn’t sure when I had done it.  I am positive I…

  • No One Saw Her

    “I know she was here.  I tracked her phone and she is here.  Let me in!”  I knew I was almost screaming, but I was on the verge of being completely hysterical.  I knew my sister was inside.  Either by choice or she had been forced to come in.  Forced to stay.  I was opening…

  • Regrets

    I always regretted not going on the camping trip.  But I was nervous about sleeping outside and nervous about wild animals.  My mother – being the hypochondriac she was – had brought me up to be scared of normal events.  Not that getting eaten by a bear was something that happened every day, but at…

  • When You See Me

  • Solar Eclipse

    I wanted to see the solar eclipse, but wasn’t sure I could handle being in the car with Adrian for that long.  I didn’t think I could listen to him mansplain the eclipse to me.  Again.  Repeatedly.  For six hours.  The one other time I had been stuck alone in the car with him, I…

  • A Good Conversation

    “I always loved a good conversation until I met Theodore.  He was the only one who was able to make me uncomfortable with myself and with the truth.”  I didn’t want to look at my therapist because I wasn’t sure what she was going to say.  Sometimes I wondered if she either liked me or essential…

  • High Pitched

    “If his voice hadn’t been so high-pitched, I think I would have been able to handle what happened. But I… just couldn’t listen anymore.”   Out of the corner of my eye, I watched Jessica turn and look in my direction for confirmation what she had done was correct. Was good. Was right. I couldn’t…

  • The Ride of My Life

    I chased the horses and wondered when I could ride one myself.  Everything I ever wanted in my life began and ended with horses.  But for now, I was relegated to watching them on television and reading them to life out of library books. With parents who treated me like a porcelain doll, my chances…

  • Bad Habits

    As the river churned, I wondered if it was a reflection of my future.  I knew I needed to leave town as soon as possible.  Otherwise, I would sink back into the hard living of my past.  I knew I would immediately get sucked back in with my college friends and fall back into the…