gravity ➳ muke

xii

I was left with getting the cold

shoulder from Luke for the entire

rest of the week.

It hurt knowing that

me asking a simple question

had such a negative effect

and I was still left not knowing why.

I was surprised on Saturday evening,

four days since he had spoken to me,

when he knocked on my

front door at eleven pm,

with tear stained cheeks

and swollen, bloodshot eyes.

I led him inside, up to my bedroom,

without saying any words,

Once we were both sitting

on my bed a thick tension

filled the air when neither of us spoke.

And then,

Luke confessed.