You love your girlfriend, Sevika, and you’d always been sure she loved you too… even if she didn’t really show it. She was naturally a cold person you reminded yourself- that was why her treatment of you didn’t differ in comparison to anyone else. Sevika didn’t have a sweet, gentle, loving reputation. So it was only natural she didn’t treat you that way too. right?

Nevertheless sometimes she felt too distant, her behaviour too detached and her demeanour even with you was unwaveringly cold.

It hurt worst now, when she’d come home late and ‘show her love for you’ before getting up and lighting a cigar without giving you a second glance. No words. No sweet advances. Just complete silence.

Sevika picked up on the mood as she let out a shallow sigh and hesitantly spoke. “You know I care about you right?”