I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go
miles out of the way, as if
avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

“I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.”

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge…”

“Everyone had a forever.”

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling a…”