Hickey

I became selfish, to make the long story short.

I was able to sympathize with other people just to escape the responsibility I had accepted before. I knew it was wrong to solve one problem by another, but in those times I had no idea.

Seeing his eyes, his hopeful eyes it slowly broke me into pieces. What I hold on to I can hardly stand. I don’t know how he tracked me down to Molly’s apartment that same day.

But one thing’s for sure, I was so happy seeing him there. I’m so happy when he hugged me so tight like he’s afraid of losing me. I remember his words, he wants me to go with him so bad.

He wanted me to live with him and he called it our home. He’s my home. And whoever people who I’ll be with, I’ll always feel alone. I’ll always be the dust that has never found it’s way home because nobody owns it, nobody wants it. And it’s just a mere dust who’s useless and doesn’t deserve a place in this world.

“Echo,” I uttered his name when the door opened.

It’s midnight. I immediately smelled