Gloom

Chapter 49

"You could have told me any of those times…" I muttered angrily. Just like you could have done it anywhere but in my fucking bed.

Her jaw clenched, as if she'd been hit hard in the stomach, and I turned away, not waiting for the bus.

On the way home I tried to calm down before my parents, who had arrived in the morning, saw me devastated. I had a lot of bottled up feelings and therefore wanted to cry out of sheer helplessness, but not in front of them.

The next few days felt like psychological torture.

Time seemed eternal at work. Jade, who realized that Diana was no longer speaking to me, would come up to me whenever she saw me alone. However, as much as I tried with her, I couldn't get totally comfortable with her, and faking sympathy all the time was more exhausting than I could imagine. After the discussion on Monday, neither Diana nor I wanted to make an effort to start a conversation or to try to fix the situation.

And so, even though it hurt, I decided that maybe it was best to