Aiden
Jessica’s anger still smoldered, but there was a hint of vulnerability in her demeanor after she brought up my antics with Elisa that told me in a million ways how much I had hurt her by my thoughtless behavior. Her cheeks heated and she looked away, clenching and unclenching her hands. Silence, our ever-constant companion fell between us, as her words marinated in the resulting tension and crept past the last blockade of anger and bled it away.
The saying ‘Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’ had never hit me as hard as it did in that moment and that revelation carried a huge wave of remorse for how much of a hypocrite I was being, getting all worked up over an innocent incident when I was guilty of doing so much worse which was a new low, even for me.
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