Chapter 28
IT HAD been a week since I’d left home. I’d sent a couple of text messages to Sarah asking how she was, but she’d replied with ‘Go away and leave me alone’. I decided to try phoning this time; so after a dinner of tough steak and overcooked vegetables in the motel restaurant, I rang her.
To my surprise, she answered. ‘What do you want?’
‘I just wanted to see if you’re okay.’
‘As if you’d care. Have you left yet?’
‘No. Can we meet up some time soon? I don’t want to go without seeing you and well ... explaining things.’
‘I don’t want to hear your pathetic explanations. I always knew you didn’t love me in the same way I loved you; but I thought it didn’t matter, that it would change over the years and we could still have a good life together. Pretty naïve, wasn’t I?’
‘No, yo
