Nothing Compared to Her

COLE

I can't breathe.

The hallway feels too narrow, the walls closing in like a coffin. I press my back against the cold marble, my fists clenched so tight that my nails bite into my palms.

“My feelings for you keep overriding the fear.”

Hazel's voice echoes in my skull, soft and shaky and full of an emotion I never got from her.

I slam my fist into the wall hard. The pain barely registers.