ZAIYREE
I was stunned and couldn’t find any words to respond with. My body lurched in response to his words, part of me wanting all of the things he described, but there was another part of me that couldn’t even fathom all of those things. The latter kept me frozen in my seat. My lips parted, as if to respond, but I didn’t know what to say, so I sat there gawking like an i***t.
“I’m sorry,” he said, breaking the tension in the air. “It wasn’t fair for me to dump all of that on you. I was being selfish. I should’ve kept my feelings to myself.” He ran his fingers through his hair, and his chest heaved with a deep sigh.
“It’s okay to be selfish,” I whispered. Those were words Jasiah had always told me in my darkest moments when I felt guilty for surviving when the rest of my family was kil
