This is an afterword for a three-part story with a twist. You should read the story first if you haven’t yet!
So, like everything I write—like everything anybody writes—this story has elements of real experiences in it. The characters and relationships are composites of people I know, either firsthand or secondhand…but of course none of them are based entirely on any one real person or situation.
This is the third part of a three-part story with a twist. You should read Parts One and Two first if you haven’t yet. After you finish this part, you should read the afterword.
She wasn’t his type. A little too wiry, and a face that—to be honest—looked like it had fought a long war with acne. Not to mention the light hair.
So that first time, when they started having a discussion near the end of class, only to look up half an hour later—well, he really, honestly hadn’t been thinking of her as a potential girlfriend, or indeed particularly as a girl at all.
(But he did add her on Facebook when he got home that night.)
This is the second part of a three-part story with a twist. You should read Part One first if you haven’t yet, then continue to Part Three and the afterword.
She still wasn’t exactly sure why, and that bothered her. But it had bothered her more that she hadn’t been able to say why not.
They had been together almost a year, and it was just about time to start thinking about their anniversary—not talking yet, but thinking—and she started having strange thoughts like if we can make it through the next six weeks, which gave way to even more worrisome musings about how it’d be really sad to break up on their anniversary, or right after their anniversary…
At which point she caught up with her brain and asked why they were breaking up, exactly.