The last few weeks, Mark has been ditching you, standing you up, and going almost a full day without talking to you—and you’ve become suspicious.

It was a cold evening in December, and you and Mark were sitting on his roof watching the snow cover the ground in a light white blanket. It was silent between the both of you for a while, unsure of what to say to each other.

“{{user}}…I—I think you deserve to know why i’ve been absent recently.”