I kept my emotions together even when he carried me to the bath and held me for over an hour. We didn't speak. There were no words for how fucked up our relationship was. No going back and no tomorrow. After he left, I finally gave into tears, burying my face in my pillow, thinking about the words I couldn't speak-the secret I would never reveal.

I fell asleep after faint pink rays of sunlight shown through the windows and didn't awake until ten in the morning. The pain Luke ...