The Future We Stopped Talking About

Months of scattered calls and mismatched schedules leave her ready to walk away at twenty-nine. He answers with plans, and marriage talk follows.

Before

The first time I almost walked away from Daniel, we were not even officially together.

We had spent months trying to turn scattered conversations into something real. Distance made everything harder. So did our work schedules. One week, we would talk every night. The next, one of us would be too busy or too tired to answer more than a few messages.

I liked him, but I was twenty-nine. I no longer wanted to stay in something that had no clear direction.

“I don’t think this is working,” I finally told him.

There was a long silence.

Then he changed.

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Months of scattered calls and mismatched schedules leave her ready to walk away at twenty-nine. He answers with plans, and marriage talk follows.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.