We are fifteen steps away from my front door, sharing a cigarette underneath a streetlight, sitting on the damp, mossy cobblestone curb, our thighs touch so I am not cold in the little skirt you complimented once, and we apologize to each other about a future unknown time when we will inevitably let one another down.

We are liars when we say we are not in love.

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By R.L. August