Matthew 

I was going crazy.

Actually, crazy didn’t even begin to cover it, I was losing my mind. Every damn thing in my life was spiraling, and I couldn’t seem to stop it. One moment, Violet was mine, she loved me, she looked at me like I was her entire world. She’d smile when I entered the room, and hold my hand without me asking. Another moment, she looked at me like I was a stranger. No, worse than that, like I was nothing.

She didn’t return my calls. Didn’t answer my messages. And when I went to see her, she was cold, and distant in a way that didn’t...