I wasn’t entirely sure what I was supposed to say in response to that statement of his, but I did know that I wouldn’t be able to pretend that he hadn’t said anything either. When I had come in here, I had come in here with a purpose. I had been fully intentional of saying what I needed to say, but it seemed like that was something that wasn’t going to happen as clearly as I had convinced myself that it would.
“Can I show you the house?”
This was something that triggered me a lot more than I had believed it would, because when I had come here to talk, I had meant it. I was going to say what I needed to say, and the conversation wasn’t going to be changed, simply because it was becoming a difficult conversation to have. If that was what was going to continue happening, then things betwe
