When we were both 19 we moved to a larger city for the first time. We were both born and raised in a small rural town and I thought that was the life we wanted.
We started dating freshman year of highschool. Since the town was so small, all the schools were one building. The was probably a total of 600 students through the entire k-12. Miranda, my girlfriend, was easily the prettiest girl there, smart too. She was so smart that she got offered scholarships at this college in a big town and I followed her here.
I was never that smart, more of a handyman. I got a job working at home depot and helped pay the bills. I would wait for her to come home from class or study groups because I was struggling to make friends.
After a couple months I felt like I was dating a different person, like she didn’t want me around, like I was annoying.
She started getting distant, hiding her phone from me, changed her passwords. I think at the time I knew what was happening but I was so desperate for it to not be true.