ni

you were seeing?

hrows her hand in the air to indicate that it is just there.

nd that is the most innocuous of her piercings. The tip of her left eyebrow is a row of three studs, both of her ears are lined with shiny studs and rings. There is a piercing on her tongue and another on her bottom lip. And those are only the ones that we

oing to break up

n been together two weeks

m the man I fell in

cake is too sweet and the dough is too grainy an

And he is comfortable being jobless a

ough to feed one mouth, I cannot ima

out." I tell her and she smirks as raises her glas

ays ends up at my doorstep bawling her heart out and swearing to never get involved with men. Then she walks out my door and falls in love with the next man again and I brace myself

u sounded pretty bu

hru

n circles, looking for a way

also under

ll we have " She says,

ly and we both e

n. But on some days like this, when I feel well and tr

l we drop." I sa

, I think, and if not, sta

.

nly by the memory of my feet. God is smiling down at me today, because I don't even run into anyone, though their yells and cries reach me from behind their doors and through the walls. I make it

mutter, or I

to insert my keys and turn the lock. I push inside immediately and slam the do

r ado, I drop my wallet to the ground and slip out of my slippers, matching fo

thigh and I groan and turn over as I fish around inside my pocket and come up with... oh my phone.

go back to the message from Tech and

they gave a reason, I muse vaguely. Most messages are a short sorry, you wer

ag upwards again, there is another paragraph beginning with 'however' but surely this is only me hallucinating, or dreaming. I think I'm dreaming. I sca

fe would have been like if I was born into another family, another state, another planet.