"Do you have any regrets?"
"Hi Kat."
"Do you?"
"Everyone has some."
"..."
"Okay, um... I regret pretty much every argument I've ever had with my mother. I regret breaking my twelfth-grade friend's heart right before prom. I regret leaving."
"Gabriel just got me thinking."
"Oh, Gabriel."
"How are you?"
"Okay, I'm at the vet. Klose needs shots."
"Is he scared?"
"Yeah, he won't shut up. He's growling at a baby."
"Awe..."
"What about you?"
"Nothing, just walking."
"Mm..."
"Well, I'll let you go."
"You don't have to."
"Okay."
"..."
"..."
"And Kat?"
"..."
"I don't regret you... sorry, shit, I have to go the vet is ready for him."
Click.
"But, will you?"
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Conversations From Afar
Short StorySEQUEL TO BALCONIAL CONVERSATIONS | In which Katherine and Cambriel suffer the ups and downs of a long distance relationship | Wattys 2016 | cover by the fabulous @kdkellow
