therealljidol week 23: backing the wrong horse

[j0ydivided]

We're driving somewhere through Idaho when my phone buzzes gently, telling me I've got a message. I'm in the passenger seat, a friend is driving, and there's another friend in the back of the car. I'm in the middle of a story, talking about that one time, in that one place, when we did that one thing -- something funny that ends with mistaken

Comments

[swirlsofblue]

Such a sad story. Sometimes you do just need to cut people out for your own good *Hugs*

[messygorgeous]

Being in a relationship like this is awful, and man, I know we all have been there. Reading it made me feel a little sick to my stomach because it conjured up experiences like this I had when I was younger.

The frustration with a person who keeps you hanging, either out of their fear of being alone or because they just don't have the guts to say "This isn't ever going to happen," that is just infuriating. And at some point you grow just as disgusted with yourself for putting up with it.

Here's to cutting bait and moving on.

[beeker121]

This is lyrical, and pulls the reader through that dance of a relationship that isn't, really. Once the friend's letter said "I know I've never been good to you" I wanted to shake your narrator just a little, and tell her to believe that. But she got there in her own time.

[bewize]

Harsh and so true. Great job.

[flipflop_diva]

This was so hard to read, but yet I couldn't stop. I have friends who've been with people like this, and it's just so hard to watch, and you want to help them but in the end they have to figure it out for themselves, just like the protagonist here did.

You did a really great job of portraying the never-ending sorrow, and hopes, that comes in relationships like this. So well done!