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There was something pressing so hard against my brow, something that felt like it was going to bust through my skull and just smash into my brain, and it wasn't till a few minutes later that I noticed that it was the heel of my hand with my head laying in it. Bent over with an arm over my knees, I sat there with hunched shoulders as she stood nearby, an ugly, almost mocking smirk pulling at her lips as she didnt notice me looking at her from the corner of my downcast eyes.

"The girls called me out so we're going to be hitting the streets for a while. I'll check in so theres not point in calling or texting me."

Her hands were crossed underneath her breasts, those long fingernails like talons as they oh so gently grasped her upper arms. A gentleness that she would show only to herself and whoever else she was involved with. It felt like such a long time ago, that those hands touched me with that same attentive grasp. When she turned around and shimmied her way out the door, a resounding click of the doorknob later, I couldnt help but sit there on the leather couch and think about what all she had said this night and how she behaved. The same stubborness, the same poisonous words, the lashing tongue that seemed to be like a whip each time she let a lie roll off of it.

For a small while now I had thought of many scenarios as to why she just wouldnt tell me that she was cheating on me. She was forced to not tell. She was afraid of the man that she was with and just couldnt say anything. She was drugged and has become so addicted that she always has to go back to the same man to where she got it from in order to get more and fulfill the feeling. She was being bribed, blackmailed, threatened, perhaps even-

The buzz of my cellphone startled me out of my reverie. Reaching into my shorts, I slowly pulled it out and glanced at the message that filled its screen. Coffee?

Swiftly typing in,Great, just what I need..., I swiftly pulled on my usual boots before softly closing the door to my apartment and treading over to the coffee shop.