About to Erupt

Kristo

I felt as though I was going to blow my fucking lid at any moment. It had been a week since she’d come back, and she’d stuck to her word. No emotion, no romance, and certainly no sex. And it was starting to drive me up the fucking wall.

Life before she had left hadn’t been this way. I knew that for damn sure. It hadn’t always been easy, fair enough, but it had been interesting and fun and the two of us had actually shared something together. I still wasn’t sure what it was. She seemed to think it was love, but I wasn’t certain it could be categorized that easily. Whatever it was, it had to be better than the shit we were dragging ourselves through right now.

She would come home from work and just sit there. I was pretty sure that was the hardest part. It was the look on her face, unreadable and impossible, and the fact that she would just plonk herself down in the seat opposite mine and nod and smile and be polite. Where was the Amaya who would tease me, would call me an asshol