Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was something they did together? I don't believe in psychology; which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.