Care

“Why don’t you just break up with him?”
“It’s not that easy…”
“Why because he pays all your bills and pays for your schooling?”
“I don’t want to talk about this,”
“That’s it isn’t it?”
“Stop!”

He sighed.

He looked around the room for another question.

“Does he know?”

-

“Where were you at 4?”
“What?”
“Your classes end at 3:30 and your usually home at 4, where were you?” I wondered how he can say it so causally like he wasn’t interrogating me.
“I had to talk to my teacher about missing a class Friday I was trying to find out that day’s assignments,”
“To Hank Roberts?”
“No,” I answered to quickly, “My English teacher, I don’t have History on Fridays remember?”
He smiled and nodded “Yeah, I remember,”

-

“I don’t know, whenever I give him some bullshit excuse he just smiles and nods but… h-his eyes say it all,”
“What do they say?”
“Do you think I’m stupid?”
“Well do you?”
“Do I what?”
“Think he’s stupid?”
“No… James is anything but an idiot,”
“Do you ever think you deliberately try and ruin your relationship so when he leaves you, you don’t have to take responsibility to end it?”