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y device, refusing to belie

s to hurt

we made? No, a plan I

dness's

place and spend some time toget

? I wondered at this point, jumping off f

s happ

he bed where I pic

urtains, looking out of the space and gazing at

sn't

away, finding my way back to

and would reach

re was more than enough time to see an

f he doesn

reen of my phone and again,

his time around, I was more tha

was swit

o

bed and beg

ime I would be treated i

st and even now. Why do I think he would

d me to th

several occasions, I walked back to the room and j

oom and on arrival, I stripped and sta

elt

not the right person to think of, since

I grabbed the towel hung on th

once, I gazed at my figure in the mirror

ait until

rtment, or give me a call: I would be left

ot be hurt? It has been over two years of being together with him in a re

y doorstep, while our yearly anniversary was never reca

had e

e mirror and caught u

going to

o the look of things, he didn't seem like he was going

nd up with

one of the many hangers in my wardrobe, and

was dressed

the man I love. If at all he was going to m

picked up my phone in a bid to call. It was switched off,

lung the device on the bed

houghts of what to have for bre

me, unsure of what to do next. My mind was not settled, and I thought of

can

o spend the rest of my life w

e? Does he not love me? For goodness's sake

ner. There, I rinsed the kitchen kettle, let

nd waited. Soon enough, the kettle alarm rang and

efore pouring some of the

ir after grabbing a pack of cookies,

e dishes before headin

n the man who works at the gate, opene

n had

got ready to open the door of my apartm

s wr

stan, neither