HAVE I LOST HIM? (Short Story - Fiction)

‘Don’t go! Don’t leave me! Please!’, Jane cried out as she held the arm of the man she loved—John—to keep him from leaving the apartment they had shared together for the past three years.

‘Jane! Let go of my arm’, John said.

‘I will, but please don’t go. Let us talk about this’, Jane said, letting go of his arm.

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‘I have been talking for a long time, Jane. I love you so much, but you are suffocating me. You have been the air that I breathed for a long time. You always assume things about me without asking me first. You never gave me the benefit of doubt and believed what others said about me instead of trusting me and believing in me’, he said bitterly.

Jane looked at him tearfully. ‘I love you, John. I love you so much. I can’t be without you. Breathing is easier with you around. My whole world is brighter with you in it. I will change. I promise to begin to make conscious efforts to be better for you and for us’.

‘I think we need time apart. I have to be away from you to figure out if I still want to be with you’, he told her.

‘How long will it take, John?’, Jane asked as she saw the grim look on his face. He never changes his decision once he has that look on his face.

‘I don’t know Jane. I am broken that it had to come to this. I didn’t ever want to leave you. But my trust in you has been broken so much, and I was unaware of it. I am not sure if I want to keep trusting you with my heart’.

‘I am sorry, John. I will wait for you, no matter how long it takes. You are the only one for me. You have always been the only one. You know that, right?’

‘I know. Goodnight, Jane’.

‘Goodnight, John’, she said as she watched John shut the door behind him as he left. She let out a gush of air that she didn’t know she was holding. She sank to her knees, falling to the floor. She shuddered at the realisation of being alone in their apartment and let out a loud cry. She cried so much that she was at a loss for air. ‘Have I lost him?'. It was all she could think about. ‘The air that I breathe—have I lost him?’.

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