Chapter 56

THOUGHTS OF THE PAST It gets awkward to be around my ex girlfriend, Laura, after I all of a sudden smooched her, so I find ways to leave the coffee shop soon. Every time I say anything to do with calling it a day, Laura ends up keeping me engaged in something she knows I followed in college. Most of them I still keep a track of which makes me talk some more and delay leaving from there. This is the exact thing she used to end up doing when we were dating. She was staying alone back then, and I was living with my family. We would hang out at her place after college almost every day and at night when I mentioned leaving, she would start conversations about topics she wasn’t even interested in, but because topics like football, photography, gaming would excite me, I would finish up staying longer than I had initially planned to and quite many times even the whole night. I was immature at that time to understand her fear of being alone. I couldn’t possibly have guessed it also. Once she mo