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And when I close my eyes before bed, your laughter echoes in my head.

In the early morning, in the moment before I am fully awake,

I feel you.

I taste you.

I smell you.

Then I wake completely from my dream, into my nightmare.

I hope that wherever you are, you don’t feel me, don’t taste me, don’t smell me.

Because this is fucking torture.

I love you.

– Ev

January 22, 2022

Six years.

I’m so fucking angry, Leo.

For the last six years, I have racked my brain.

What did I do?

What didn’t I do?

The only answer I can come up with…

Nothing and everything.

I supported you. I was patient with you. I lifted you up.

You heard me. You saw me. You consumed me.

And then you left me.

Fuck, Leo.

Why did you do this to us?

– Ev

I notice that this is the first note where he didn’t end with I love you. Is this when he fell out of love with me? When his anger overwhelmed his love?

January 22, 2023

Seven years.

I told myself I wasn’t going to write to you anymore.

But today I saw a young girl, around 14, who had cigarette burns on her arms.

And I thought of you.