Chapter 4

No retaliation

While she had applauded herself for the emotional purging by letting all her dark emotions gush out, she couldn’t help but detest herself for stifling her wrath at being wronged by him. On several instances,...

Stay friends – NO

Besides the dead silence, there wasn’t anything left between them after she had snapped their connection. Yet, after a few short weeks (which felt much longer) the offer of friendship seemed like the next...

Niceness or weakness

After two months of no contact when he approached her in the smoking zone at work she was taken by surprise. Her heart started racing when he waved at her but, his ‘hey’ wasn’t...

Excuses zone

Dessert binging, chain-smoking, shabby dressing and no physical workout were the pillars of her coping mechanism to tackle the emotional outburst of parting from him. Inadvertently, going on a rant about him with her friends...

Self-esteem rescuer

She had the audacity to identify the host of errors she had committed pre and post her breakup with him. After a long back and forth with her unsettling emotions she gained some clarity concerning...

Thanks, rejection

Even though she was engulfed with self-doubt and dejection, her confident exterior continued with the same zest. Her gentle demeanour had very well camouflaged the breakup blues and only inner sulking was self-permitted. Her internal...

Last meeting

Think of the last meeting before separation. Drama, streams of tears and pleading will cross your mind. But, nothing like this ensued when she met him the last time before snapping their connection. During their...

Flashback into Disparities

He was the mainstream corporate guy, she was an abstract artist, he only gorged on meat and she only had vegan, he resided in the realistic world of logic and she inhabited the dreamlike...

Waves of pain

He was the mainstream corporate guy, she was an abstract artist, he only gorged on meat and she only had vegan, he resided in the realistic world of logic and she inhabited the dreamlike...

Relationship deficits

He had cracked open her heart brimming with love and passion that made her turn a blind eye towards the deficits. But once her feral emotions for him were reigned, the shortfall in their connection...