"The silence stretches between us endlessly, both looking at each other, then away awkwardly; neither sure what to say or do. I know he s looking for the words to fix this, but there aren t any. I know his good guy persona means he will try though, and all that kiss did was prove he wouldn t be able to. He loves someone else and kissing me just repulsed the hell out of him. I guess he wanted to know, without just having a two-second smooch sprung on him, and now he knows. He doesn t feel the way I do. Like I didn t already know that, and I don t need him standing there looking like he may pass out to remind me. His face tells me a thousand things that he doesn t need to verbalize."
" I need you to go. I know it s the only thing I can ask of him for my own sanity. If there had be
