“Do you want to talk to her?” he asks.

She’s maintained contact with him. Now she asks him about me.

“Sure,” I say, almost casual, taking the phone. We’ve been apart. (She’s always so busy.) Now something happened, I’m leaving soon.

Our voices are breaking. Time is against us. Emotion.

Peter Li-ping is an experienced college lecturer and manager. He currently lives and works in the Northeast of England and has aspirations to have his written work published.