I stared at my phone, trying to make it ring with the call I was expecting for so many hours. It never came. It was good, right? This was what I wanted. This was what I had longed for. The day Robbie forgot about me. I wished I had bit more time to prepare myself. Hell, I thought I was prepared for it. The call came at noon, when he was having his lunch. I was running around making sure there was enough food on the table. He had skipped his breakfast again, I thought I could break him off his nasty habit. But he came back earlier than expected, hungry to eat a cow. His words, not mine. “Angel, this is enough.” “No, eat some more, God knows when you will eat next.” He was not lying when he said he was hungry. I poured him water to wash down his BLT. I had made some fries to go

