Chapter 10Kristen was leaving.
I won’t lie and say it was going to be easy to say goodbye. I thought of confessing my feelings to her so many times. But I didn’t, because I’m a coward. Because she had told me she doesn’t do long-distance relationships, and because her decision to leave was abrupt. Just as abrupt as her arrival. She was a bit like a whirlwind. She swept me up and then threw me out, sending me toppling to the ground.
I sat with her for as long as I could, before she had to go through security. I brushed her hair with my fingers, using any excuse I could to touch her, to try and remember how she felt. How comforting her presence had been while she was here. There had been emotional distress, it was true, but she was overwhelmingly a positive force in my life. And now that f
