11. "Do you like me? __Yes or __No" In response to In response to 0
Do you like me? __Yes or __No
what happens when she says no? After everything you are is there for her to see and she slowly pushes it back across the table to you in a neat little package wrapped in "I'm sorry" with a sad half-smile and an almost casual brush of your hand
in that moment you are truly vulnerable, laid open like a fish on a filet board guts and all open for all to see
you're suddenly scrambling to pull some dignity from the tatters of whatever you offered her cloak yourself in stuttering assurances directed more to yourself than to her wanting to be anywhere but there stifling the need to explain, to prove to her that this could be good and right and true.
All she has to do is believe... but she doesn't.
What happens when she says no? when you have lost a little something of yourself that can never be recovered, not really when the tiny hole is made in your heart and slowly fills with the cold metal left by rejection hardening under the truth of reality's sun