What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know

Such a
What
?!

I stagger back,

feeling like a rifle blast

has just torn my chest to shreds.

He couldn’t have said

what I think he said,

could he?

But the answer slaps me hard

across the face:

He
said
it, all right.

And he didn’t even see me

when I came around the corner.

So he couldn’t have only been saying it

to
get
to me.

He was just saying it.

Like it was the most natural thing

in the world to say.

Like it was something

people say all the time.

Which means—

Oh, God!

They probably
do
say it

all the time!