Not Your Fallback Anymore

I've been doing a lot of thinking, she said, fingers tracing the

rim of her coffee cup, about us, About everything here

it comes. She talked about how stable I was, how safe she felt with

me, how she never had to worry when I was around,

how I listened, how I made her feel seen all things she'd once mocked as

too boring for her. Then she said it, I think I made a mistake there.

It was the line I'd played in my head a thousand times, not that I

wanted to hear it anymore, not now. I sipped my coffee. Let the silence