~~AXEL~~ I try to dump her, and she dumps me back. Great. And she did it with a fake smile. A fake smile! I'll never live this down. But... was I actually going to dump her? Did I really want to? God. Relationships can be so hard. I massage my temples, feeling a headache coming on. Or maybe it’s not a headache; maybe it’s just my brain finally rebooting. Everything feels different. Painfully slow. After a few business phone calls this morning, I can’t bring myself to move. The phone on my chest feels like a useless piece of technology that just told me I'd been bested. I’m sprawled on my back, staring at the ceiling, which suddenly looks a lot less interesting than it used to. A simple explanation for why I went MIA for two weeks, and my genius response was to try and break up with her.

