He Demanded I Apologize To His Mother Until The Door Opened

He was waiting for me to call them back. To say it had gone too far. To preserve something.

I did not move.

The door closed.

The silence that followed was the first quiet I had felt all day. Not the silence of held breath, not the silence of someone waiting for the next thing to happen. Just quiet, ordinary and real, the sound of a house when the only continue reading …