Hansel - Before

Hansel - Before
I didn’t mean to say the words; they just fell out of my mouth.

And the moment I said them, I wished I could take them back.

I was angry at her, and she was always angry at me. We had wanted to hurt each other. That was why the words came screaming out of my mouth. And I knew... I just knew that I had gone too far.

The way she recoiled from me was a punch to the gut. I tried, I really tried to form the words to make her believe I hadn’t meant it.

But by then it was too late.

The front door had already slammed shut behind her.

I knew it was the end of our marriage, the end of the life we had always dreamt of having with one another.

The end of me and her.

One sentence and my life imploded before my eyes.

All because I was an asshole and had said the first hurtful words that had popped into my head.

“YOU WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT BEING A WHORE, WOULDN’T YOU, GRETAL?”

Eleven words and I lost her.