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the most hurtful words they said to you
LeeMarie

Stranger

His frustration had built to a boiling point, and finally he said what he’d been thinking throughout the months of our little cat-and-mouse games.

“You’re only here with me because I was the first person to be nice to you.”

The words went straight through my chest like a hot blade. Not because they were true, far from it. But because I finally saw myself through his eyes, and I didn’t recognize me.