Is This Really “It”?

 

I tried doing other things to let the tension subside. I started going out. I went to see friends. I did virtually anything possible to keep myself together.

Then one day, I decided to give it one last shot. To convince her to come home – to us.

I went on and asked Ludi to send her a message and let her know that I was in the lobby of her office. My old office. She was kind enough to see me. But the air wasn’t the same as it was before.

“Hello, Audrey.” I said nervously.

“Hello, Paul. How’ve you been?” she replied.

“I can’t say that I’m okay. But I’m glad to see you. So… I dropped by to ask if you’d like to get breakfast and talk about things?”

“Oh… Uhm… Sorry… I can’t. I still have a lot of work to do.”

“Come on, now. For old time’s sake?”

“I really can’t.”

“Come on, I can wait for you. I think we can have a decent conversation and go through things like we’re supposed to.”

“Paul, I can’t. I have a lot of work to do. Have you been eating? I heard you were wit