26.02.17 - 9.32 pm
Rose: How are you feeling today, Theo?
10.13 pm
Theo: Not great
10.27 pm
Rose: Why is that?
10.31 pm
Theo: The woman that I was on a date with yesterday excused herself to go to the bathroom, and then she never came back
10.33 pm
Rose: Oh, I'm so sorry, Theo
Rose: You must have really liked her
10.43 pm
Theo: I didn't
10.52 pm
Rose: Then why are you so upset?
10.54 pm
Theo: It could be because it's quite depressing that someone has to first lie, and then escape through a presumably small bathroom window to get away from me. And two, she reminded me of my ex-wife.
10.57 pm
Rose: The papers were passed through?
11.01 pm
Theo: Yes, today
11.03 pm
Rose: I'm happy for you, Theo
11.04 pm
Theo: I'm happy for me too, Rose. But why do I feel like this?
11.07 pm
Rose: Because you loved her, because you still do
11.11 pm
Theo: I don't still love her.
Theo: I hate her
Rose: Don't say that, Theo. You don't mean it
11.12 pm
Theo: I do, I mean it so badly. I hate her, Rose. I'm so glad that she's out of my life.
Theo: But why does my heart ache?
11.17 pm
Rose: Because even if you don't want to admit it, a part of you still does love her, Theo.
Rose: It's completely normal
11. 18 pm
Theo: It is?
Rose: It is
Rose: But you'll get over it, and you'll stop hurting. I know you will
11.21 pm
Theo: How can you possibly know that?
11. 22 pm
Rose: Because I believe in you
Theo: Thanks, Rose
Theo: I don't know what I would be doing without you
11.24 pm
Rose: I don't know what I would be doing without you either, Theo.
11.25 pm
Theo: Well, that makes two of us then.
Rose: Good
Theo: Good
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His Stranger [COMPLETE]
ContoA story in which he spends his nights talking to a stranger. #47 in Short Story - 25.07.17 Cover by @guyswithguitars Copyright © 2017 @_illuminating All Rights Reserved