Gemotions

"Look, I... I just don't know what to say." Leo stammered, the words catching in his throat. He’d bumped into his high school crush, Emily, at the supermarket. She had a copy of his diary printed, open on the checkout counter.

The shock was a physical blow. He felt a sharp, stinging pain in his chest. Everything he'd written, his clumsy attempts at humor, his embarrassing crushes, his raw, untamed emotions. All now fodder for her amusement, and probably that of the dozens, maybe hundreds, of others who had read it.

He wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air. He mumbled an apology and fled, hearing her laughter echoing in the grocery aisle.