✽ Jason ✽
The apartment was far too quiet. It bothered me. And it was hard to admit that I didn’t just miss Mandy, it was more than that. It was like an ache. Almost like heartburn, but worse. The stillness bothered me, and I was one who loved the quiet. But this was different. It was a different type of silence.
Because I was alone.
I kept thinking about how I could resolve the problem. I kept trying out different scenarios in my head, but this wasn’t an equation I could solve. Mandy had left because she knew the truth. She left because she feared me. She left because she didn’t trust me. It hurt in a way that was almost foreign to me. I rubbed my chest as I looked around the living area. I hadn’t slept. I hadn’t eaten. Two days had passed, and I couldn’t shake this feeling that noth
