Her fingers ran up my back. Chipped lavender nails dug into my neck, and for a moment I wasn’t sure if she was screaming or I was. Slowly we sank down, back to earth, back into the mattress, back into each other. She twirled the hair at my temples and let out a heavy sigh. I never know how to feel when we lay there, her head on my shoulder, silent. We agreed we would see other people, and stop clinging to what we knew wouldn’t work. So we went separate ways..and eventually, ended up in the same bed.