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"Did you - did you sleep with her?" I said silently, keeping my head down as I try to fight the tears. God, I missed him; I missed him so much. I missed us. How did we come to this? I wanted to ask but knew it was too late.
He didn't reply right away and I waited with bated breath for him to deny what I knew in my heart was the truth. I wanted him to lie, wanted him to pretend that everything was okay and go back to how we were before. But he wouldn't lie, a trait I used to love in him but now wished he didn't have.
"I'm sorry," he said after a long while, unable to say the word directly. A tear fell and I hastily wiped it away with my hand as I nodded.
"Do you still love me?" I knew I was torturing myself but I needed to ask, needed to know if there's a way that I can save this like what I've been trying to do for months. I looked at the way he hung his head low, his arms on his legs as he grasped his hands together. Say yes, please just say yes.
"I don't know," he said, rubbing his hands on his face.
I stood up, took a deep breath, mustered all my strength and said, "Dinner is in the microwave."