Chapter 079

"Our history didn't end well and I was bitter." Sheryl says, her voice shaky, she looks out the window as Hernandez drives smoothly, following the midnight black car in front of us, expertly weaving through the midday traffic of the city. It is bright outside but in my head, it could be midnight.

"That was over twenty years ago, Sheryl. You cheated on me and you are still mad I didn't take you back?" I ask incredulously. She refuses to look at me.

It is true that I and Sheryl dated for a couple of months during our freshman year in college. It was intense as young love usually was. We were young and wild. She was clingy and needy, the perfect Nineteen year old girlfriend for a twenty year old boy. We believed ourselves to be soulmates.

I don't credit our fallout to just Sheryl alone, I played a part, I have come to accept that over the years. I wasn't in the best of headspace in those days. Maybe I should have listened to her. Maybe I could handled it more maturely than I did. All