We Were Simply A Transient Presence In Each Other's Lives

ing," I said calmly a

ever mind. I will run you a bath first. Getting soaked in t

d looked at

ening to him nag me, the more

I used to believe it showed

esist showing off our relationship either, like

, taken from behind him with a caption that read, "Three dishes and a so

d and his waist slim, while the diamon

, captioned, "I never knew the flan he made could

hat, and Jere always encouraged

le world to know what an

t as unable as I was to contain

ryone things about our relationship as he did, preferably so Nina could s

med photo of Jere a

shoulder, smiling with re

im could become a pitiful person unabl

with someone, but he should not

py smile on my face in the photo and

f the frame and tore it

d happiness we had were real, but

hat love felt like, the truth was that all the swe

left over for me after he ha

a piece of

sweet, only to find out that someone els

her framed pho

e, young and old, standing

with the ponytail standing beside him,

n's intuition; the moment I saw her,

hand so tightly in the photo, and the way

lly told me that she was hi

hat photo of Nina on his desk

had not

er was also in t

ce in it, and my e

d, and a tear fe

three whole months, making such a gra

cepted his confess

w my

r backgrounds was

whim, and that the moment he lost interes

be even more frightening and hu

e day his grandfather was hospital

front of me in the rain a

d his face against my neck a

t in the rain, homeless, worth a great

someone was the beginning o

as the mom

of nutritious food for him to take

od for him and his grand

smile and say, "Bab

t his grandfather was in critic

y told him that his gran

he hospital hallway. Half-awak

eyes and gla

reaming, so I clo

, and considerate, so I never thought he would look a

t back on it, my

Jere had felt even a tr

I would never k

identification documents and

ing toward the door wit

the rack beside the tub. Your skin has been a little sensitive lately, so you

thout moving or

go to sleep, okay? Do not run around. Since you got soaked in the rain, drink plenty of

ide. "God. Can you just call a delivery service when you ran out of tampons? Did

enly g

usting. And I decided I d