(Noah)
I didn't lie back down.
The decision had already settled and sitting there wasn't going to change anything. I pushed myself up and pulled my shirt back on. The restlessness was still there but it had direction now and direction was enough.
She had drawn her line. The fiancé. The distance in her voice every time I got close. She wanted me to accept it and step back.
I wasn't going to.
I grabbed my keys and stood in the living room for a moment. Every second inside brought me back to the same image. Her sitting beside him. The way she looked across the room at me anyway, like she had no control over it.
I moved to the door and opened it.
Her door was closed across from mine. I walked across and knocked once.
No answer.
I waited. Nothing. I knocked again, slightly firmer.
Sti
