"I must say that I didn't realise until this after some time…" I motioned for him to keep going "Initially I thought I was doing it just for you, for all the reasons we just talked about. But there was something more to it. Every day, I would wake up and say, 'I'm coming back and I'll apologize, everything would be fine', especially after I learned that you ended up going to college that summer, I had no reason to stay away, I would tell myself.'"
"Why didn't you?" Tears prickled my eyes, I waited for so long for him to come back, I wasn't able to go back to normal for the longest time.
