Promise

My heart ached as I found out my boyfriend of 2 years had cheated on me. I looked at the screen again with tears in my eyes.

"I don't love you anymore"

The words replayed in my head like bullets, each word shattering my already broken heart even more. I contemplated even responding but ultimately losing the battle as my heart took over my brain.

I sat in my dark kitchen with only the bright screen burning my eyes giving me some sort of light.

"What changed? What didn't I have that you had to cheat on me with her?" I typed crying even more as I wrote each word hoping that I would wake up from this nightmare. I felt the regret and embarrassment hit me like a train when he said.

"You're pathetic. You should just move on."

I turned off my phone now sitting alone in the darkness feeling all my emotions move to the back of my head, leaving me empty to cope with the overwhelming pain that was rushing through my whole body. My eyes grew dry and hard to keep open, they were almost begging me to close them. I slowly fell to my side and closed my eyes exhausted from all of the crying.

I woke up again but this time I slowly felt water engulfed me. I open my eyes in panic seeing I'm completely emerged in what seemed like the ocean. I try swimming up to the surface but the more I swam the more it seemed like I fell deeper into the black abyss of the ocean. Suddenly there was a figure that swam around me like a shark, like I was their prey. They swam around me a second time and I was able to notice that they were human. They came around me from every angle eventually getting closer to my face, the figure's blue hair shimmering as it got closer.

I open my eyes again this time feeling the cold tiles underneath my skin. I fell asleep on my kitchen floor. My phone, purse, and shoes were all around me like I had just woken up from a hangover. What was that dream? And why did it feel so real? Almost too real.