I thought about leaving Brent alone until he got fed up. I waited for days, weeks, months, until I lost hope that he would be sweet to me again.

We still go home but since our gaming work schedules are different, we rarely see each other. On the weekend, we still have breakfast together but only until then because he will sleep during the day and leave in the afternoon.

However, I still go to work and pretend that there is no problem. It's just that it's hard to pretend that everything is okay when it's not. It's hard to smile when your heart is hurting.

I just arrived at...