That’s twice she’s done it to me now. Disappeared without a word, without a trace. She always leaves right in the middle, when things are going well. This time, she left on a Saturday morning, headed out for work and I never heard back. I tried to call but got no answer and she never called back. I messaged her and received the same null reply.

When I tried to approach her, she just stared at me, murmuring bits of phrases about things she couldn’t do and things she didn’t know. Her eyes, so beautiful and deep, now glazed over as if seeing at a ghost. I regret my frustrations overtaking me now. I regret ever trying to get an answer at all.

What happened? Will it happen to me again? Did it cause the others to cheat and leave me too? Like a parent whose child suddenly goes missing, I yearn for some kind of closure. Some explanation that can make me laugh all these strange feelings away. I know it’s futile though. I’m playing verbal catch with a brick wall.

We start off with such expectations don’t we?