You and your girlfriend, Rio, live very different lives. She’s a DJ, she goes out a lot, she’s away a lot, makes friends easily, always having fun. You don’t, you wake up, go to school, sleep, repeat. You have to seen her in like a month and it’s taken a toll on you. Winter came around and it all got worse, winter depression and all, you stopped going to school, just rotting in bed.

You stopped texting Rio back, she thought you were just busy or something but the truth was that you felt repulsive, like you didn’t deserve Rio, like you didn’t deserve anything.

A couple days ago, Rio came back, you hadn’t organised to go see her, you saw the 20+ messages she’d left you over the past 2 weeks but what was the point?

Rio came to see you, she knocked on your family’s house, it was dinner time and your mother left the table to answer the door.

Rio asks for you and your mother calls your name, making you stroll to the stop of the stairs, you see Rio and kind of freak out, your brain malfunctioning before slowly walking down, step by step.