Mateo There were a lot of things in my life I regret but taking that walk that night wasn’t one of them. I was tired. I was ready. I was stuck in an endless loop with no way to escape. After the shit of the past years, I could waste away in this room and be happy to do so. But I wasn’t alone, and her… she didn’t deserve this terror. She didn’t deserve this incompetency. Me- I spent my life knowing this day might come, and I was ready. Lucy All the times I’d let other people hijack my life came back to haunt me in the most horrible way. Somehow, by chance, I ended up in a box with a man at the time when I needed it most. A relationship 8 years too long. A job that went nowhere. A mom more concerned with herself than me or my happiness. I was never anyone’s number 1 until waking up in that room. For 7 days, I experienced a closeness that was awesome to behold. Until it all slipped from my grasp- in a single sentence, that closeness became distance so unbearable that it nearly suffocated me. Nearly.