Status Updates From Aveke

This is trash

“It was me because besides loving Zeke, I’d let so many others in and this was what it was like to find your happily ever after. It wasn’t just the guy. It was yourself. It was accepting and welcoming love, and I was glowing.
And three months later I had another reason to glow.
I was pregnant. I was half considering ordering a baby cardboard cutout to give to Zeke when I told him.”

“I pointed at myself. “What the–”
“Oh yeah. That.”
“Yes! That. What is that doing here?”
He went over and put his arm around it, smiling wide at me. “I only get cutouts of the people I look up to.” He was teasing, but then he got serious. His eyes got dark, and he came toward me. “Jokes aside, you’re the only cardboard cutout I want in my life.”

“You being here. You texting me. You getting mad at me. You yelling at me. I’m okay with it because it’s you. You’re my fuzzy dandelion.”
“What?”
“A fuzzy dandelion. You know those flowers. They’re fuzzy and you blow on them to grant you a wish. That’s you. You’re my wish.”

“Maybe I saw a bit of me in her. Sadly, it wasn’t the part that had friends. It was the part that felt like a schmuck. That was me back then, and still was.
I lied to Zeke. I wasn’t single because I wanted to be.
I was single because no one that I wanted, wanted me back.”

☹️

You gave me sunshine when I didn't know I needed it and now all I want is your sunshine.