The door clicked shut..
I didn’t move. I didn’t breathe. It was like my body forgot how to exist without his eyes on me.
The silence felt wrong. Too big. Too empty.
My heart was still racing like he was in the room. Like he was still standing in front of me, breathing the same air, staring into me, peeling me apart without lifting a finger.
My legs shook first. Then my hands. Then everything..
I didn’t even know I was crying until tears hit my collarbone and slid under the strap he touched. The stop burned like he’d marked me. I wrapped my arms around myself and stepped back-just one step, but it felt like falling.
The air felt tight. Heavy. I couldn’t get it into my chest right. I didn’t know where to stand, where to look,what to do with my hands. I hated that even the silence fel
