It wasn't a surprise.
Maybe to others it was, I mean you hid it so well. You wore your mask perfectly. Only I saw you crumble and yet there was nothing I could have done.
Maybe it's my excuse to say I did all I could, I tried everything, or maybe that's my guilt speaking?
Did I let you down?
Could I have done more?
If I had would you still have left the way you did?
Could I have kept you for just a little while more?
Or had I been using borrowed time?
YOU ARE READING
Maybe
Short StoryWhat if, she asked? What would have happened if she had only stayed?
