When The Party's Over

58 7 0
                                    

I had done all I could for him. And yet he still left me.
I wasn't used to being alone. It was hard coming home and not hearing his familiar voice, or his footsteps on the hardwood floor.
Back when we were together, I had sometimes wished we weren't. He was gone partying most of the time anyway, it was as if he had already left me.
But now that I got my wish, now that he left, I felt awful.
I never told my friends how I felt now, because they knew how much I didn't like how  my married life was turning out. I had told them how much I wanted life to go back to what it was before I got married. They all thought I would be happy that I got my wish. And I told them that I was.
But that was a lie, I didn't like it the way it is now.
I hated the quiet every time I came home.

When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go (Short stories)Where stories live. Discover now