I betrayed him at the company party.
Not because I was desperate for a wild romp, but because, for the first time in a damn year, someone actually asked how I was doing—and waited for the raw, messy truth. We were slumped on the staircase, puffing on cigarettes, his shirt a crumpled disaster, his jokes so lame they almost circled back to funny. Later, riding home in a taxi, it hit me like a punch: the real betrayal didn’t happen in the grimy restaurant bathroom. No, it started way before—when the walls at home turned deaf, when no one gave a shit to listen or understand…
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