“

LEO: So much has been changing lately, and it’s scary, so you want a link to your past.

“

“The more you let it out, the faster you heal. Trust me, it will sting inside you after seeing them, even if it was for half a second. Let time take over.”

“

Am I a just a friend? Do your friends make you feel this way? Do they look at you, the way I do? Do they secretly think about you before they go to sleep and wish you loved them back?

“

What do you do when the one that got away comes back? What if you had the chance to rekindle the romance that you fervently longed for?

“

I think many of us are addicted to the feeling of longing for something.

“

For years I have been trying to impress you from afar. An unintended consequence of this is that I have, now and then, been able to impress myself.

“

He imprinted himself onto my mind, becoming an indelible part of my understanding of men. Because of him, I determined that men were always to be distant, preoccupied with their own arcane desires and unquenchable sense of adventure.

“

And if you didn’t pick up? If my missed call just lingered, blinking silently into whatever empty room you’d left your phone in, waiting for you to come back and pick it up, what then?