Page 143 of Sweet Days


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I’m not able to contain everything I feel. I am not

able to maintain control.

I want her, I desire her, and I want to spend

every night with her in my arms, to help her…

I want her goddamnit.

Allof her.

But I’m not able to, I don’t know how it’s done

… I’m not able to love.

What can I do? Stay with her? Raise somebody

else’s child? Me? The guy that’s always refused

the idea of a family, me who doesn’t want to end

up like my parents, that doesn’t want to live in a

shithole of a house in a rat hole of a neighborhood

with six mouths to feed and a part-time job?

Okay, things are going well for me now, I’m

alone and I have no responsibility, I have no one to

maintain and no one to take care of.

And I’m not able to face anything more than

day-to-day life where I am all that matters.

Love consumes you, it bends you and it

destroys you.

I bang my head against the wood, cursing

myself for having gone to that girl’s house and

trying to screw her and then leaving half naked

with my mind completely flooded with Erin, Erin,

Erin.

I wasn’t able even to look at her.

Couldn’t do it.

And now I’m here cursing myself for having

followed her upstairs, jumping her and then