Right now, this doesn’t have a home just yet and I’m not sure what I’m doing with it.  I’m also posting this a few weeks in advance-we’re going to be out of town on vacation, so I’m stockpiling my blogs.

If he was smart, he would have taken her with him when he left.

Or he would have written.

Would have tried to call back and talk to her.

If he was smart, he wouldn’t have let her still have a hold on him after all this time.

“Jesse?”

Looking at his dad, he asked, “Yeah?”

“You okay?”

He gave the old man a smile.

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

But as he turned away, he could have sworn he heard his heart shattering inside his chest.