Jealousy.

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  "Hm? What's wrong?"

   How do I tell you? I don't know how to express this feeling inside me… Why? I constantly ask myself.

   Whenever you're with your girls, I feel nothing. Not entirely. I'm happy seeing you laugh with those close to you. What I mean is that I feel no negative feelings towards your time together. But, that's when you're with your girls.

   When you're with him… it's different somehow. A bad feeling bubbles within me. A feeling that weaves through my logic and takes control of my emotions. I try to act cool in the face of such negativity, but that doesn't change the experience. It's not my will that keeps me in control, but fear. Fear that'll you'll look at me with scorn.

   Why am I insecure of your friend—of him? Is it because he knows sides of you that I don't? I can just learn about them in time, so that can't be it. Why is it that whenever he gets close to you that my heart rate increases and my palms get sweaty?  

   I know what this feeling is… I know that having such a feeling is normal. I know that letting it build up would be detrimental to our relationship. I just don't know why I'm feeling it. You're mine—my girlfriend. My lover and darling. How much more possessive can I get?

   Is it a folly of man to want to hold the heart of the woman he loves too close to his?

   "Nothing's wrong… Nothing at all."

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