Happily Ever Never
“I’d like to think that by now I could at least bathe or get myself out of bed, but it was impossible. The more time that went by the harder it became to accept everything was over.
The sheets, which still smelled of him, were keeping warm, but offering no comfort. My body felt mangled from the inside, and the more I attempted to focus on what was to come, the more wretched it appeared.
I didn’t want to be beautiful, cared about, or looked in upon. I wanted to fade away until there was n...othing left. Seven days should have been enough for me to accept what I couldn’t change, yet I lay in bed every waking second hoping for some sort of reprieve.
Shawna showed up on my doorstep that night. She and Nathan had come over with dinner. I sat across from my kitchen table staring down at a cardboard box of lo-mein noodles and wanted to toss them across the room. They meant well, but I didn’t need to hear what happened after I left.MoreLess
The sheets, which still smelled of him, were keeping warm, but offering no comfort. My body felt mangled from the inside, and the more I attempted to focus on what was to come, the more wretched it appeared.
I didn’t want to be beautiful, cared about, or looked in upon. I wanted to fade away until there was n...othing left. Seven days should have been enough for me to accept what I couldn’t change, yet I lay in bed every waking second hoping for some sort of reprieve.
Shawna showed up on my doorstep that night. She and Nathan had come over with dinner. I sat across from my kitchen table staring down at a cardboard box of lo-mein noodles and wanted to toss them across the room. They meant well, but I didn’t need to hear what happened after I left.MoreLess
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