M A L L O R Y
“I missed you too.” Those words coming from Alistair’s lips caused me to feel this pit in my stomach. Was I too childish to feel this way towards another girl obviously much younger than me, knowing that I was a thirty-five year old woman who needed to be mature?
Was I childish?
Was I childish for feeling this way?
Was I childish for feeling a bit traumatic right away?
But the voice in the back of my head told me that I was not childish at all since we were allowed to be vulnerable even as we got older. I was trying to make myself feel a bit better and comfort myself with my own words, acknowledging that despite my age, I was still allowed to have my own feelings and insecurities.
I truly felt jealous, jealous of what this unknown woman got from him even though I mys
