My one accomplishment so far in the dark isn’t finishing the essay on Toni Morrison’s Beloved that my parents assigned to me (yay, homeschool), but memorizing the lyrics of all the songs on my Nocturne mixtape, not that that is such a prize. Who knew Cupid could be so cruel?

“I’ll follow you into the dark”—Josh hasn’t even texted me once in the dark.

“Oh and the stars, oh, oh and the stars / Well, they just blink for us.”—Maybe two weeks and a lifetime ago they did, but now they’ve burned out.

“Gets hectic inside of me / When you go.”—Enough said.