“Thank you,” KC said as the assistant handed her laundry.
A group of students passed in front of the laundromat, laughing uproariously. Their lives simple and uncomplicated. Her eyes followed them with envy before she exited, the huge bag of her clothes slung on her shoulder. She was glad her apartment has one on the ground floor. What was that word Steven used earlier? Convenient. Yes, this is convenient. It angers her that in less than two weeks, he came to dominate almost all of her thoughts. Even her dreams. But it also terrifies her that the only person in her mind right now is the same one she tried to forget for over nine years.
Her stomach growled. She hasn’t eaten properly all day aside from the pancakes she had with Steven. And even then, it felt like eating a sponge. The swee
