I Said I Love You

by Alex Thornber

I guess I hadn’t really thought it through, but that was part of it; the absence of overthinking, as I saw it, signalled it’s purity. Three little words skipped off my tongue in a moment of joyful expression — out of breath, holding each other close, the roughness of his stubble tingling my chest — but they died in the silence that followed them. He got out of bed, roughly shaking me off. Despite leaving me wrapped in the duvet we’d warmed together, I felt cold as he threw my boxers at me like they — like I — were a piece of rubbish. How could something so full of love, by its very nature, ruin everything? He didn’t even look at me when he said No you don’t.

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Alex Thornber is a writer and bookseller who can rarely find the right words when talking about himself but rambles often on twitter.