Chapter 51. A Phone Call

His words. His words were nothing short of perfection. I could not help but feel a warm feeling fill my chest as I played them in my head over and over. 

I loved Mark, I really did. And the thing about love is that it just doesn’t disappear. Maybe it fades, maybe it gets weaker. But it never just randomly vanishes. 

He had hurt me and had hurt me really badly. He had broken a part of me that I did not think could be fixed ever again. He had torn me apart and left me raw and open. But that did not mean that I did not love him. 

That did not mean that I could just erase all the memories that I had of us and the plans that I had for our future. I wished that I could, honestly, I wished. To be respectful to myself, I wished I could just forget Mark. 

But the truth here was that I was only being delusional. That was not real life. I could never truly forget him, no matter what. 

“Lisa?” He called out softly when he noticed that I had not sa