Chapter 7

“Give me back my passport.”

“We’re already over.”

“Where I go next is none of your concern, Pax.”

I turned off my phone, the pale glow fading into the darkness.

Silence settled around me, thick and unshakable.

Pax knew I had never left the country before.

Knew I had never even considered applying for a passport.

Yet here I was.

At the beginning of the year, he had mentioned it so casually, like it was just another passing thought.

“I heard the first snowfall in Norway is breathtaking

“You should get your passport sorted. We should go together sometime.”

Back then, I had laughed, brushing him off.

“We should save money first.”

We had never traveled together.

Never even made real plans.

Not for him.

For myself.

never

phone vibrated again–a voice

voice poured into the quiet, edged with

we broke up?”

short,

I say we were

was maddening.

confidence was ma

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to leave me, but do you really have

trip. You even went and got your passport, didn’t you? Secretly, without

me.”

you

let the words sit there, unread, untouched.

even after everything, he still

Not him.

the years we had

hold on, that I’d forgive, that I’d let this become just

thought I’d

Then–another message.

tone softened, his frustration giving way to something gentler,

I wanted to be honest with you?”

wanted to tell you.”

-The lies.

The deception.

carefully crafted act, pretending to be struggling, pretending to be one of us when

early, and everything got… messy.”

A pause.

A sigh

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