The Heartbroken - S01 E181

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The Heartbroken - S01 E181

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 181

The look on his face nearly brought

me to tears.

There was no room for pretense in

this suffocating air of what ifs

and should have beens between us,

and suddenly, I knew I had to tell

him.

“Cedric,” I finally said, “we were

never really going out.”

—

It took what felt like an hour to

explain the whole situation with

Seth with him, but when I looked at

the wall clock that had been

hanging here since forever, it had

only been twenty minutes.

When I was done, he just sat there

and stared at the table for a really

long time.

“I’m sorry,” I found myself saying

for the seventh time.

He brought a hand to his forehead

and refused to look at me, as if he

was trying to process the

information.

Both of us sat in silence, suspended

in time as we hung on unsaid

words, but I felt like I could no

longer hold on.

“Cedric,” I finally said.

He looked up at me.

“I need to know why we broke

up,” I told him, “because I can’t let

go of—of—of this when I have no

idea what went wrong.”

His eyes wavered, but he struggled

to keep his face blank.

“Please.”

He held my unrelenting stare. He

opened his mouth and I held my

breath.

When he finally answered, his voice

was nothing but a mere murmur.

“It’s leukemia.”