I'm Thinking of Ending Things(48)

I know I shouldn’t. I know that. We’re sorry.

We remember now. The painting. It’s still in our pocket. The painting Jake’s mom gave us. The portrait of Jake that was meant to be a surprise. We’ll hang it on the wall with the other pictures. We take it out of our pocket, slowly unfold it. We don’t want to look, but have to. It took a long time to paint it, hours, days, years, minutes, seconds. The face is there looking at us. All of us are in there. Distorted. Blurry. Fragmented. Explicit and unmistakable. Paint on my hands.

The face is definitely mine. The man. It’s recognizable in the way all self-portraits are. It’s me. Jake.

Are you good? Are you?

There’s grace in doing the right thing, in making a choice. Isn’t there?

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