We sat across from one another, with neither one of us saying anything. I had come to realise that that was something that always happened, regardless of who it was that I had been speaking to, or who it was that was in my company. Perhaps it was my fault that it happened? Or was it something that happened to everyone?
“Why have you been spending so much time with him?”
My eyes stopped their wandering around the room, stopped their counting of the little indentations in the walls and instead, found their way to him, not stopping until our eyes made contact with one another. It came as no surprise to me when we made direct eye contact—after all, he had spent the entire time that we had been sitting here, like this, staring at me. It was something that I expected.
“Does it ma
