I thanked him for something that hurt me
He read my diary — not by accident, not a glance he stumbled into, but deliberately, thoroughly enough to have specific lines memorized. He brought it up mid-argument, quoting something private back at me word for word, using it to win a point about something completely unrelated to what I’d actually written. I remember the exact physical sensation of hearing my own private thoughts recited back to me as ammunition, like watching someone hold up a photo of the inside…

