Alex’s Point of View Soundtrack: Cringe by Matt Maeson I woke up to another text from Allison that made my heart race. The instant anxiety came over me as I saw her name come up on my messages. It was a feeling I should never have when it came to my girlfriend, but everything had been on edge lately. There was this overwhelming fear that she would be telling me this day wasn’t going to be the clean slate I had hoped it would be. Yet, when I’d opened the text, she hadn’t even said anything bad, but still my heart was like a jackhammer in my chest. I wanted to chalk it up to excitement. Hell, I should be excited about this. But deep down I knew that wasn’t what I was feeling, the anxiety of the past few days was just too much. Date night tonight? The text had read but the words weren’t