Today was like any other day,
I woke up to the sky blending with the sidewalk to a hazy grey blue.
My morning walk was calm, no strangers to bother me
No dark thoughts to haunt me,
Today was just like yesterday,
Today was normal.
Yet, I heard your name.
I froze, I didn’t even hear it,
The dumb five syllable, seven letter word,
No name,
Had me frozen in place.
It was on facebook, one of our three mutual friends tagged us both in a post,
Your name was darkened,
Unclickable
Something that should be a forever barrier between our lives.
And I know for certain I blocked you months back,
And that it was possible that you’d resurface
But not in this way
Not a post set upon laughter.
Nerves got to me before I could decide to react,
And I sweated through my shirt and held on to my remorse.
So I hopped in the shower
Cleansing myself of the filth you left behind.
My hands were trembling so bad that I dropped the shampoo bottle three times and the conditioner twice.
And halfway through getting rid of the scent with my vanilla scented wash,
I could no longer tell the difference between the rush of water or my own streaming tears.
About the Creator
Nixza Gonzalez
My passion for writing is suddenly back and I want to share it with the world!
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