ANASTASIA Denver didn’t speak to me until we got to the apartment description Drake gave him. He is trying to respect my decision, and that’s all I want at the moment. I need alone time in my head. I need to calm the pounding in my chest and the constant constriction in my heart. I should stop my stupid heart from believing that he'll come around. That one day, he’d feel a silver of what I feel for him, but I’ve only been chasing a void. An impossibility. I’ve been clinking my nails, and they all hurt badly now, but I still can’t stop doing it because I’m nervous, maybe anxious too. Maybe deep down, I really want to see them. I truly love to have them back in my life. I want to meet them and maybe forgive them so we can all start over. It isn’t going to take anything to forgive the

