CHAPTER 16
LIN
All weekend, I’ve been trying to bring up the courage to talk to Kara again. After telling her that I couldn’t come with her to dinner on Friday, I didn’t feel right, it felt wrong that I declined her invitation. It took me most of the weekend to realise that I was scared. I was so scared of the wrong things and that closing myself off from others wasn’t going to make that better. I also realised that being on my own, alone, always coming back home to an empty house, I don’t want that either.
When I’m with Kara, and things between us are going well, they go really well. I don’t worry about what I’m doing, I don’t worry about what I’m saying, I can just be with her. Sure, the constant fear of people hurting me, it’ll probably never go away. But that also… That also shouldn
