I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness

Sometimes, it’s okay to give up.

Photo by Mathias P.R. Reding on Unsplash

I’m jumping. My legs soar through the air and I land on my friend’s bed and we’re in Miami and there’s an expansive pool outside the glass doors because her family’s wealthy, the severe and alienating kind (does there exist any other?), and I press all the buttons in the elevator that takes us to the penthouse where I’m jumping. This is before…