Lifespan Deathwatch

[Damien McEwan]

Nivek holds up his pad and stares at his empty inbox and slumps deeper into his couch and his depression, debating if he should send another message to Jaina.

He taps into his sentbox and counts the long list of ignored messages he's written to her already for the past few weeks. Each and every one of them marked as 'Unread'

She obviously doesn't want to talk to him.

He can't blame her though. He's the fool that walked out on her.

An old saying echos loudly over and over again in his otherwise empty mind as an hour passes by in the blink of an eye:

'It's better to regret something you have done, than something you haven't.'

He stares at the images on the TV, but doesn't really see them. All he sees these days is how much he regrets abandoning her and how f**king stupid that saying is.

He imagines knocking his head against the wall just to punish himself a little more.

He, for a moment hopes maybe she's ignoring his messages just to knock some sense into him, because even though life is full of hard knocks, when one door closes, another one opens.

Of course he's going to send her another message.



Alia Daeva pokes her head in the door and calls out, "Nivek? You home? Can I come in?"

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