Tragedy

dinner and when I offer to help her, she refuses and just tells me to sit down because she wa

he day toda

another normal day in the routine. W

tomorrow. I'd pick up the shift today anyway, b

e fine and in the end, you won't be able to take care

ou know I need to pay off the debt your fat

d? The mood of the evening

's Sarah doing? Still choo

guy she met on a dating site, b

Do you have anyone y

dy said I'm not g

ery cliché like "every pot has its lid" while I ro

ent to the computer seeing that they had some messages fr

ree from school.

normal, no one r

't forget this,

t of course

orrow is Saturday. D

ew eatery opened up 3 blo

re you ask

e you turni

t saying no, th

y: Wha

How abo

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funny. See you

not to get

t how I should act with him tomorrow, how I should dress, how I should behave and whether or not I should refer to him in a more casual way or not.

t at all, I really just made the worst decisions. I look at my cell phone and see that it's already past 9am

a date, but I couldn't help but feel an irrational nervousness, as if I was getting ready

laid shirt over it and simple sports shoes. Since the coffee shop was about 5 blocks from my house, I decided that I would wal

nd I became more and more irritated and embarrassed by it. "Get a hold of yourself you little shit, you look like a bride on her wedding d

e door of the diner, find a place to sit at a table by the window and just wait, the waitress asks me if I would order now and I answer that I was waiting for someone an

d and given up on showing up. My anxiety increases with every minute that passes, my hands start t

ooked exactly as I remembered him, his hair was wavy, his silver earring was shining in his left ear, and his eyes were honey colored, all my anxiety was overcome with

as if my voice had been stolen as an awkward silence settled over the place