Don't you dare.

'I forgive you…'

The words echo in our heads. I kept my face and mind blank, showing no sign that I had heard him. He sighed, exasperated, and started to repeat himself, this time out loud.

"I have just one thing to say to you…"

"Don't you DARE" I cut him off.

He couldn't forgive me, he was not like me in that respect, he could still forgive but I would not let him. I was tainted, unworthy. In our minds I could pretend that he didn't forgive me, that I never heard him, that I didn't forgive him, just a tiny bit, in return. In our minds I could do this but never out loud.

"There is just one thing I want to tell you. I-"

"Oh no you don't"

Don't you dare forgive me I'll only destroy your soul.