Ending the Affair That Almost Happened
This is how our affair will unravel, my darling.
In all our wrongs, I want to write him
in a time
where I can find him.Before the tears that came and tore us;
when all our history
lay spread before us.
-Lang Leav, Time Travelers
My darling,
Before it even happens, I am writing to you to end it. End the affair that we are about to have.
It seems preposterous for me to suggest we are going to have an affair, as we are barely even friends. You are in town on business, and we have only spent a handful of evenings together. It’s been nothing other than conversation and a little harmless flirting. Well, sort of.
We are two good people, with two good lives. You are married, I am not. We’re of an age that we know how to manage ourselves, our jobs, our problems. We’ve seen ourselves through a few life crises, buried a parent, brought children into this world.
It was nice to connect with you again after all these years. There was a vague familiarity, but for all intents and purposes, we are strangers. We are decent people, working hard in life, friendly to our neighbors, good to our…
