School is stressing me out today, Christian and Jenny are squabbling in the corner, and I have had to redraft this pattern a dozen times. My focus is all over the place, and the interruptions by Karen, another classmate, are making me crazy. I should have just stayed home.

I woke up moody and irritable, and when Arrick got up to shower, I found myself lying in bed and staring at his phone, contemplating if he had deleted texts from her. I know it’s stupid. I pushed away the ...