I should have known it... «Conversations with Friends»
janefiriel8 января 2025I should have known it wouldn’t work out between us. Didn’t we always know that? he said. I paused for a second. Then I just said: I didn’t. Well, but what does it mean for a relationship to ‘work out’? he said. It was never going to be something conventional. I got up from the bench. It was too cold to sit outside. I wanted to be warm again. Lit from below, empty branches scratched at the sky. I didn’t think it had to be, I said. You know, you’re saying that, but you obviously weren’t happy that I loved someone else. It’s okay, it doesn’t make you a bad person. But I loved someone else. Yeah, I know, he said. But you didn’t want me to. I wouldn’t have minded, if … I tried to think of a way to finish this sentence without saying: if I were different, if I were the person I wanted to be.
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