I was packing the last of my things, a list forming in my head to make sure I didn’t forget anything. I was only going for a few days, but I wanted to make I had everything I needed.

I hadn’t talked to Jake for hours. When I got out the shower he had already left. I only assumed he went to his parents but who knows. He was in a right funk, but I was taking nothing to do with it. He would come out his mood the way he went into it.

We were both adults and if he didn’t want to sit and talk ...