The Cruelest Lie

VAL

Why couldn’t he understand? Why did he have to keep insisting, making me feel worse for being forced to push him away?

This was destroying me, killing me inside. Having to keep lying and saying horrible things when all I wanted was to throw myself into his arms and make the pain stop.

He shouldn’t have come. *But he came. He came for me, even after I told him never to come again.* That made me