While You Chased Your Ex, I Let You Go

At the high school reunion, everyone was talking about the photos on their girlfriends' phones.

They laughed, saying their couples' selfies didn’t even make up a fraction of the photos of their favorite celebrities.

I stayed quiet.

My girlfriend didn’t follow celebrities. But she had an encrypted album on her phone.

Inside were hundreds of photos of her ex-boyfriend.

During our three years together, she spent every single day planning. She was just waiting for him to come back to the country so she could find an excuse to dump me.