The silence between the two of us became difficult for me to endure, but even so, I couldn’t bring myself to say anything to him. I wasn’t sure whether any of it was going to make him argue with me again, or whether it would actually show me that he was open to civil conversation.
Even though my heart monitor did not depict a change in the way that I was feeling, it felt like my heart was about to bounce right out of my chest, the intensity of it being something otherworldly.
I took a deep breath, trying to come to terms with the fact that I needed to say something to get him talking. The silence was getting to me. I didn’t know what he was thinking, and to make it worse, I didn’t like the path that my own thoughts were taking.
“How long do you plan on staying here? With me?”
He st
