( Esther's Point of View)
The silence between us was too much to bear. Every breath I took seemed to pull me deeper into the confusion I had been fighting for days. The room seemed smaller than it was, and the space between Matthew and me seemed bigger than the space between two people. It felt like the world had worked together to keep us apart from everything we used to share.
I looked over at Matthew, who was sitting across the room with heavy eyes from all the things he hadn't said. He sat up straight, with his hands clenched in his lap as if he were trying to hold on to something…anything…that could keep us together. But I could feel the tension in the air, the unspoken agreement that we had come to the end of something. Not the end of everything, but the end of this
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